Thread: help from Portugal

help from Portugal

From
Pedro Miguel Guedes
Date:
I have a crazy problem here.
Nobody seems to known why.
I am not a database expert nor do known much about
Postgres.
I am just a system administrator trying to move a database from
one system to another.
O the old system (slackware linux) the postgres was downloaded
an compiled from source.
O the new system (Red Hat 9.0) the postgres was installed from
rpm precompiled binaries.
Everything seemed ok.
I pg_dump from the original.
I createdb anf pg_restore on the destination.

On the old system I did the query:
SELECT * FROM contactos WHERE empresa_nome ILIKE ´%nestlé%´;

and it did work
O the new system it does not produce nothing!???

if I do
SELECT * FROM contactos WHERE empresa_nome ILIKE ´%NESTLÈ%´;
it works!

For queried material where accent on letters does not matter like NISA/nisa
there are no problems with the query.

The problem seems to be on accent on letters. So I thought maybe some stuff
on charsets/encoding and I tried all the advices on the html/docs changing
database and client encodings to LATIN1 (it was SQL_ASCII) to no help.
Environ var like LANG and LC_ALL equal "pt_PT" on /etc/init.d/postgres.

The guys who did the programming on the dadbase do not known any clues.
Me, has I said, I am not expert and I a bit lost not knowing what to do
next.

Do you have any ideas?

Thanks for any help

Pedro Guedes
PORTUGAL
pmg01@netc.pt



Re: help from Portugal

From
Bruno LEVEQUE
Date:
Hi Pedro,

What have you in your dump file ? (nestlé or NESTLÉ)

Be careful, your accents are not same in yours query '%nestlé%' and
'%NESTLÈ%'. It could be your problem.

Bruno


Pedro Miguel Guedes wrote:

>I have a crazy problem here.
>Nobody seems to known why.
>I am not a database expert nor do known much about
>Postgres.
>I am just a system administrator trying to move a database from
>one system to another.
>O the old system (slackware linux) the postgres was downloaded
>an compiled from source.
>O the new system (Red Hat 9.0) the postgres was installed from
>rpm precompiled binaries.
>Everything seemed ok.
>I pg_dump from the original.
>I createdb anf pg_restore on the destination.
>
>On the old system I did the query:
>SELECT * FROM contactos WHERE empresa_nome ILIKE ´%nestlé%´;
>
>and it did work
>O the new system it does not produce nothing!???
>
>if I do
>SELECT * FROM contactos WHERE empresa_nome ILIKE ´%NESTLÈ%´;
>it works!
>
>For queried material where accent on letters does not matter like NISA/nisa
>there are no problems with the query.
>
>The problem seems to be on accent on letters. So I thought maybe some stuff
>on charsets/encoding and I tried all the advices on the html/docs changing
>database and client encodings to LATIN1 (it was SQL_ASCII) to no help.
>Environ var like LANG and LC_ALL equal "pt_PT" on /etc/init.d/postgres.
>
>The guys who did the programming on the dadbase do not known any clues.
>Me, has I said, I am not expert and I a bit lost not knowing what to do
>next.
>
>Do you have any ideas?
>
>Thanks for any help
>
>Pedro Guedes
>PORTUGAL
>pmg01@netc.pt
>
>
>
>---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
>TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
>
>
>

--
Bruno LEVEQUE
System Engineer
SARL NET6D
bruno.leveque@net6d.com
http://www.net6d.com