Re: Upgrading postgresql from version 7.4.3 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From John R Pierce
Subject Re: Upgrading postgresql from version 7.4.3
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Msg-id 518C7596.3050502@hogranch.com
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In response to Re: Upgrading postgresql from version 7.4.3  (Arun P.L <arunpl@hotmail.com>)
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On 5/9/2013 9:12 PM, Arun P.L wrote:
> Since there was some issue with hotmail I couldn't reply earlier.
>
> Encoding in version 7.4 was SQL_ASCII. What's the best way to deal
> with this?
> I hope changing the encoding to UTF-8 while taking dump will work.

SQL_ASCII means that postgres has no encoding, it just treats it as
bytes.   any values could be stored, and its quite likely that they
aren't UTF8 compatible



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