From: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>
To: Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Problem restoring a dump
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 22:07:48 +0200
Message-ID: <1315944468.5302.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110913124740.GA30709@sun.ac.za>
References: <20110913091831.GA26669@sun.ac.za>
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On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 14:47 +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> Thanks Giulio and Gabriele,
>
> > as Giulio pointed out, it seems like the destination database is in
> > LATIN1 encoding, rather than UTF8. Could you please confirm this?
>
> That was the case. I deleted one of the databases and recreated it with
> as a UTF-8 encoded database and the import went well.
>
> Question: Can I change the encoding system of an existing database? If
> so, how?
>
No, you can't. You need to create a new one with the good encoding.
--
Guillaume
http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.infohttp://www.dalibo.com
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