From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Moshe Ben-Shoham <mosheb@nexperience.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Encoding problem using pg_dumpall
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:45:25 +0100
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> (Hmm, actually it looks like pg_dumpall hasn't got a -E switch,
>>> which seems like an oversight. So you need to fix your locale,
>>> or else use pg_dump directly.)
>
>> IIRC, you can't set the windows console to be UTF8.
>
> Ugh. That seems to raise the priority of having a -E switch quite
> a lot. I'm surprised no one has complained of this before.
Most people use pg_dump. I know I recommend everbody to use pg_dump to
dump the database, because you can use -Fc. Then just use pg_dumpall to
dump the globals, and they normally don't have any non-ascii in them.
> I think it should be possible to work around it by setting
> PGCLIENTENCODING in the environment, but I dunno how to do that
> on Windows.
That's a simple
set PGCLIENTENCODING=UTF8
//Magnus
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