Re: Best practices for moving UTF8 databases - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: Best practices for moving UTF8 databases
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Msg-id 20090719110801.GA18698@svana.org
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In response to Re: Best practices for moving UTF8 databases  (Phoenix Kiula <phoenix.kiula@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Best practices for moving UTF8 databases
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On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:16:17AM +0800, Phoenix Kiula wrote:
> If so, how can I check for them in my old database, which is 8.2.9?
> I'm now moving first to 8.3 (then to the 84).
>
> Really, PG absolutely needs a way to upgrade the database without so
> much data related downtime and all these silly woes. Several competing
> database systems are a cinch to upgrade.

Look through the archives, there are scripts that will scan all your
text fields for UTF-8 problems. If you run them once you can clear out
all the problems prior to upgrading.

Have a nice day,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Please line up in a tree and maintain the heap invariant while
> boarding. Thank you for flying nlogn airlines.

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