Re: Postgres Backup and Restore

> "Phillip Smith" <phillip(dot)smith(at)weatherbeeta(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> > I've been thinking about this, and while I don't agree it's a bug, I
> think
> > that perhaps PostgreSQL should raise a notice or warning that the
> > destination database has different encoding than the file being
> restored...?
>
> If Postgres actually *knows* that the encodings are different, it can
> deal with that. The cases that are problematic are where the software
> has been misinformed for one reason or another. I doubt that a warning
> issued (or not) on the basis of misinformation will be especially helpful.

How has the software been misinformed and how can we avoid it then? :)

The start of the pgdump sets the client encoding, so shouldn't that tell PG
that things could get strange?

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