Phoenix Kiula wrote:
An easy question for some I hope.
I have a DB from 8.2 days that when I now dump and try to take into
the 8.3.7, it gives me errors about utf-8 stuff.
I tried searching this list's archives but could not come up with an answer.
Google returns some sites like these:
http://sniptools.com/databases/finding-non-utf8-values-in-postgresql -
but I'm not clear on how to use them.
Following the SQL on this site I could identify some columns that
contain text like this:
"Évolution générale de la situation démographique"
So my guess is that the non-English characters were originally not
getting written in proper utf-8 variants.
Is there any SQL possibility to find these columns and replace them
with utf-8 equivalents using some postgresql commands? Couldn't find
anything in the "Strings functions" (chapter 9 of manual).
We're on CentOS.
Thanks!
My recommendation would be to install the iconv utility and run it on a
plain text (pg_dump -Fp) backup as suggested in the google article - and
then reimport the clean UTF-8.
I am surprised that you managed to install the original backup on 8.3
because it seems to be much more strict on encoding - Unless your
database is not in UTF-8?
Howard
www.selestial.com
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