Re: problem converting database to UTF-8 - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:18, David Goodenough
<david.goodenough@btconnect.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a definative HOWTO that I can follow, if not does someone
> have a set of instructions that will work?
>
> If it matters I am running under Debian.

I did it once for a very large db (large for me was 5GB) and converted
it from EUC to UTF8.

1) dumped all the data (pg_dump_all) on the source system so it was all EUC
2) split the file into manage able chunks (per LINE not per BYTE if
you work with multibyte things).
3) iconv -f EUC -t UTF8 -c (yes -c because there might be some strange
thing inside and so it doesn't stop)
4) put the files together again
5) sed to replace all EUC to UTF8
6) import into new created db on target system with all set to UTF8

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