Re: Problem restoring a dump - Mailing list pgsql-admin

Thanks Giulio and Gabriele,

>     as Giulio pointed out, it seems like the destination database is in
>  LATIN1 encoding, rather than UTF8. Could you please confirm this?

That was the case.  I deleted one of the databases and recreated it with
as a UTF-8 encoded database and the import went well.

Question:  Can I change the encoding system of an existing database?  If
so, how?

Regards
Johann

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