Re: question on plain pg_dump file usage - Mailing list pgsql-general

"Zwettler Markus (OIZ)" <Markus.Zwettler@zuerich.ch> writes:
> I have to do an out-of-place Postgres migration from PG12 to PG16 using:
> pg_dump -F p -f dump.sql ...
> sed -i "s/old_name/new_name/g"
> psql -f dump.sql ...

> Both databases are on UTF-8.

> I wonder if there could be character set conversion errors here, as the data is temporarily written to a plain text
file.

The dump script will include a "SET client_encoding" command to
prevent that.

            regards, tom lane