WG: question on plain pg_dump file usage

Von: Zwettler Markus (OIZ) <Markus(dot)Zwettler(at)zuerich(dot)ch>
Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. September 2024 14:22
An: PG-General Mailing List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Betreff: question on plain pg_dump file usage

I have to do an out-of-place Postgres migration from PG12 to PG16 using:

pg_dump -F p -f dump.sql ...
sed -i "s/old_name/new_name/g"
psql -f dump.sql ...

Both databases are on UTF-8.

I wonder if there could be character set conversion errors here, as the data is temporarily written to a plain text file.

Thanks, Markus

I found that the tempory plain text file is also encoded in UTF-8.

There should not be any problem so. Agreed?

$ file -bi dump.sql
text/plain; charset=utf-8