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From Andreas Joseph Krogh
Subject Re: Moving a large DB (> 500GB) to another DB with different locale
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Msg-id VisenaEmail.21.1699c116dc67400b.15237e180d4@tc7-visena
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In response to Re: Moving a large DB (> 500GB) to another DB with different locale  (John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com>)
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På tirsdag 12. januar 2016 kl. 22:56:56, skrev John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com>:
On 1/12/2016 1:20 PM, Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
> I'm moving a > 500GB DB to another server which is initdb'ed with a
> different locale (nb_NO.UTF-8 to get correct collation when ORDER BY).
> Is there another option than pg_dump/restore for doing this?

nope, because the text data has to be converted to the new encoding,
indexes rebuilt since the collation order is different, etc.
 
I was pretty sure there wasn't, but had to ask before imposing downtime on our customers.
 
Thanks.
 
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