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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Paul Lindner <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: Neil Conway <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Upcoming PG re-releases
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 11:34:16 -0500
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Paul Lindner <[email protected]> writes:
> To convert your pre-8.1 database to 8.1 you may have to remove and/or
> fix the offending characters.  One simple way to fix the problem is to
> run your pg_dump output through the iconv command like this:

>   iconv -c -f UTF8 -t UTF8 -o fixed.sql dump.sql

Is that really a one-size-fits-all solution?  Especially with -c?

			regards, tom lane

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