Re: [GENERAL] upgrade to 8.4 with new character set

2009-11-12 Thread Howard Cole
Kevin Duffy wrote: We are trying to upgrade to 8.4 and the windows binaries would like us to use UTF8. Jonathan Schindler I would advise caution upgrading to 8.4 on windows as it seems to cause more of the random winsock 10061 error. Which in my experience happens hundreds of tim

Re: [GENERAL] upgrade to 8.4 with new character set

2009-11-12 Thread Howard Cole
Kevin Duffy wrote: We originally built our database with a character set of SQL_ASCII. We now know the error of our foolish ways. We are trying to upgrade to 8.4 and the windows binaries would like us to use UTF8. I would like to use a backup to restore onto the new installation, howeve

Re: [GENERAL] upgrade to 8.4 with new character set

2009-11-11 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:45:55AM -0500, Kevin Duffy wrote: > We originally built our database with a character set of SQL_ASCII. We > now know the error of our foolish ways. We are trying to upgrade to 8.4 > and the windows binaries would like us to use UTF8. I would like to use > a backup to