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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 11:52:45 -0500
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Paul Lindner <[email protected]> writes:
> On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 11:34:16AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Paul Lindner <[email protected]> writes:
>>> iconv -c -f UTF8 -t UTF8 -o fixed.sql dump.sql
>>
>> Is that really a one-size-fits-all solution?  Especially with -c?

> I'd say yes, and the -c flag is needed so iconv strips out the
> invalid characters.

That's exactly what's bothering me about it.  If we recommend that
we had better put a large THIS WILL DESTROY YOUR DATA warning first.
The problem is that the data is not "invalid" from the user's point
of view --- more likely, it's in some non-UTF8 encoding --- and so
just throwing away some of the characters is unlikely to make people
happy.

			regards, tom lane

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