Re: convert database to unicode - Mailing list pgsql-general

From David Lutz
Subject Re: convert database to unicode
Date
Msg-id 20030826062332.23645.qmail@web13907.mail.yahoo.com
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In response to Re: convert database to unicode  (Gianni Mariani <gianni@mariani.ws>)
List pgsql-general
 --- Gianni Mariani <gianni@mariani.ws> wrote: > David
Lutz wrote:
>
> >Hello,  I want to convert an existing database with
> >SQL_ASCII encoding to UNICODE encoding.
> >
> >(postgresql ver 7.3.2)
> >
> >I thought that it might be as easy as:
> >pg_dump mydatabase > dump.sql
> >createdb --encoding=unicode newdatabase
> >psql newdatabase < dump.sql
> >
> You *might* be able to convert dump.sql to unicode.
>
> i.e.
>
> iconv -f iso8859-1 -t utf-8 <  dump.sql >
> dump-utf-8.sql
>
> If all the bytea chars are appropriately escaped,
> this may do it.
>
> Can't harm in giving it a go !

Thanks Gianni,  yes that appears to have worked.
I didn't know about the iconv command.

Cheers,   David

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