On Sat, 2022-08-13 at 11:33 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Not via pg_dumpall. If you dump the databases individually,
> then you can create them manually on the target installation
> with whatever encoding (or other properties) you want,
> finishing by restoring the per-DB dumps into the respective
> new databases.
>
> Another way is to manually edit the pg_dumpall output
> script and change the encoding options in the CREATE
> DATABASE commands (but NOT the "SET client_encoding"
> commands).
Thanks Tom.
I did try doing another dumpall with the encoding set on that - but no joy.
I'll edit the dumpall if that's a legit way.
Thanks again.
Steve