Re: Recommended approach for upgrading DBs with nonmatching encodings - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

Hi again,
Martin Pitt [2008-03-30 20:40 +0200]:
> My current pg_upgradecluster uses pg_dumpall to copy the schema, and a
> per-db pg_dump to copy the DB table contents. Will calling pg_dump
> with  --encoding=3D<encoding of 8.3 server's locale> always DTRT and is
> it meant to solve this problem?=20

One problem with this is that while pg_dump -E UTF8 works (with SQL
output), -E does not seem to have any effect when using -Fc. However,
-Fc is a must for a reasonably robust automatic upgrade script.

Thanks in advance,

Martin
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