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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Steve T <stevetucknott@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> Is there an official way for migrating database encodings?

Not via pg_dumpall.  If you dump the databases individually,
then you can create them manually on the target installation
with whatever encoding (or other properties) you want,
finishing by restoring the per-DB dumps into the respective
new databases.

Another way is to manually edit the pg_dumpall output
script and change the encoding options in the CREATE
DATABASE commands (but NOT the "SET client_encoding"
commands).

			regards, tom lane