Please see below.
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Scott Marlowe
<scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Cody Caughlan <
toolbag@gmail.com> wrote:
> That worked, but "file" shows no difference:
> $ iconv -f utf-8 -t utf-8 -c foo.sql > utf.sql
> $ file -i foo.sql
> foo.sql: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> $file -i utf.sql
> utf.sql: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> So iconv didnt actually convert the file OR does is the "file" command just
> ignorant?
what happens I guess?
Uh oh.
On the remote machine:
$ pg_dump -Fc -E UTF8 foo > foo.sql
Then I've created a new local DB with UTF8 encoding and I try to restore this dump into it:
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error while PROCESSING TOC:
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] Error from TOC entry 2342; 0 17086 TABLE DATA wine_books vinosmith
pg_restore: [archiver (db)] COPY failed for table "wine_books": ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xc309
CONTEXT: COPY wine_books, line 1147
WARNING: errors ignored on restore: 1
And sure enough the table "wine_books" is empty. Not good.
