Vibhor Kumar wrote:
On Feb 22, 2011, at 10:23 PM, Jeff Amiel wrote:

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.

Using Postgres 8.4.X.

I assume slony replication is an option.....

Right! Replication would help. You can also try Bucardo.

I'm assuming you're saying you can replicate from an ASCII database to UTF8? What happens to the data that is not UTF8 'friendly?'


What about some sort of wal log shipping replication?


WAL Log shipping won't help.


Thanks & Regards,
Vibhor Kumar



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