Re: Upcoming PG re-releases - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Upcoming PG re-releases
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Msg-id 8284.1133714056@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Upcoming PG re-releases  (Paul Lindner <lindner@inuus.com>)
Responses Re: Upcoming PG re-releases  (Paul Lindner <lindner@inuus.com>)
Re: Upcoming PG re-releases  (Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au>)
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Paul Lindner <lindner@inuus.com> writes:
> To convert your pre-8.1 database to 8.1 you may have to remove and/or
> fix the offending characters.  One simple way to fix the problem is to
> run your pg_dump output through the iconv command like this:

>   iconv -c -f UTF8 -t UTF8 -o fixed.sql dump.sql

Is that really a one-size-fits-all solution?  Especially with -c?
        regards, tom lane


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