Re: Moving a large DB (> 500GB) to another DB with different locale

På tirsdag 12. januar 2016 kl. 22:56:56, skrev John R Pierce <
pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com <mailto:pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>>:
On 1/12/2016 1:20 PM, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
> I'm moving a > 500GB DB to another server which is initdb'ed with a
> different locale (nb_NO.UTF-8 to get correct collation when ORDER BY).
> Is there another option than pg_dump/restore for doing this?

nope, because the text data has to be converted to the new encoding,
indexes rebuilt since the collation order is different, etc.
 
I was pretty sure there wasn't, but had to ask before imposing downtime on our
customers.
 
Thanks.
 
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