Re: Problem restoring a dump

From: Johann Spies <jspies(at)sun(dot)ac(dot)za>
To: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Problem restoring a dump
Date: 2011-09-13 12:47:40
Message-ID: 20110913124740.GA30709@sun.ac.za
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Thanks Giulio and Gabriele,

> as Giulio pointed out, it seems like the destination database is in
> LATIN1 encoding, rather than UTF8. Could you please confirm this?

That was the case. I deleted one of the databases and recreated it with
as a UTF-8 encoded database and the import went well.

Question: Can I change the encoding system of an existing database? If
so, how?

Regards
Johann

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