Re: What's a correct or good Encoding for Postgres 9.1.2? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Khangelani Gama
Subject Re: What's a correct or good Encoding for Postgres 9.1.2?
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In response to Re: What's a correct or good Encoding for Postgres 9.1.2?  (gelin yan <dynamicgl@gmail.com>)
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Hi

 

 

We were getting this error.

 

ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xa0

 

We are thinking of using SQL_ASCII in postgres 9.1.2

 

And that we will be feeding from backup server(UTF-8) into another server that’s using SQL_ASCII. Where are not if it’ll be fine to feed from UTF-8 to SQL_ASCII.

 

Clear explaination:

 

We have

 

Primary server and the backup server running on postgres7.3.4 using SQL_ASCII. And another server which is already on 9.1.2 already is using SQL_ASCII. We feed the same data(from backup server) into this third server.

 

Now we are upgrading these two servers(primary and backup) to Postgres9.1.2 where we use UTF-8 encoding.

 

So talking about compatibility, you are saying we can continue using UTF-8?, but this will create more work for us because most of our scripts assume that encoding is  SQL_ASCII hence we want continue using SQL_ASCII in Postgres 9.1.2.

 

 

Thanks

 

From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of gelin yan
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 6:59 PM
To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] What's a correct or good Encoding for Postgres 9.1.2?

 

 

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Khangelani Gama <kgama@argility.com> wrote:

Hi

 

Please assist, I am junior DBA. We are upgrading from postgres 7.3.4 where we were using SQL_ASCII Encoding to Postgres 9.1.2. It looks like Postgres 9.1.2 forces you to use UTF8 Encoding if I read from this link http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/release-9-1-2.html . Can we still use SQL_ASCII in postgres 9.1.2?

 

 

Your help will bemuch appreciated.

 

 

Regards,

Khangelani Gama

 
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Hi

 

   UTF-8 should be compatible with SQL_ASCII. 

 




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