Jeff Amiel <becauseimjeff(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> It's come time to bite the bullet and convert a half-terraybyte database
> from ASCII to UTF8. Have gone through a bit of effort to track down the
> unclean ascii text and repair it but would like to avoid the outage of a
> many-many hour dump-restore.
Those blog articles of mine might be of interest to you:
http://tapoueh.org/articles/blog/_Getting_out_of_SQL_ASCII,_part_1.html
http://tapoueh.org/articles/blog/_Getting_out_of_SQL_ASCII,_part_2.html
Regards,
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Dimitri Fontaine
http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support