X-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E961F9DCC35 for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 12:34:26 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 95563-10 for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 12:34:25 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B91339DCC7C for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 12:34:24 -0400 (AST) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jB4GYGGG008285; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 11:34:16 -0500 (EST) To: Paul Lindner cc: Bruce Momjian , Neil Conway , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Upcoming PG re-releases In-reply-to: <20051204162520.GD10317@inuus.com> References: <1133625371.9297.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200512031554.jB3Fs8h10927@candle.pha.pa.us> <20051204162520.GD10317@inuus.com> Comments: In-reply-to Paul Lindner message dated "Sun, 04 Dec 2005 08:25:20 -0800" Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 11:34:16 -0500 Message-ID: <8284.1133714056@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.001 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.001] X-Spam-Score: 0.001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200512/182 X-Sequence-Number: 77030 Paul Lindner 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