Re: copy from problem

Le 23/12/2010 14:36, Mark Watson a écrit :
> Le 22/12/2010 21:34, Mark Watson a écrit :
>> Hello all,
>> (Postgres 8.4.6 Windows)
>> I am stumped as to why I cannot import this using copy from within
pgadmin
>> (the following table is created in an existing database with an encoding
> of
>> WIN1252 and the Postgres server_encoding is UTF8) :
>> CREATE TABLE test
>> (
>>    col_descr text
>> )
>> WITH (
>>    OIDS=FALSE
>> );
>> ALTER TABLE test OWNER TO postgres;
>> set client_encoding = 'WIN1252';
>> COPY test FROM 'C:\\pgtemp\\test.txt' with  delimiter as '|' csv;
>> select * from test;
>> --- col_descr
>> -- ----------------
>> --                 (empty row)
>>
>> The file test.txt contains 1 line of 2 characters: éÉ  (acute accented
>> lowercase and uppercase e, hex(E9C9), valid win1252 characters.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> It would be so much easier if you told us your error message.
>
>
> --
> Guillaume
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>
> ------------------------------------
> Another update :
> After toying around with this, I think this is a subject for the PgAdmin
> list. It looks like a display problem in pgAdmin. The characters are being
> displayed with a client_encoding of UTF8 but not with a client_encoding of
> WIN1252. My application, which sets client_encoding to WIN1252, receives
and
> displays the characters correctly. By the way, my pgAdmin is configured
with
> Preferences=>Font = Tahoma windows-1252 and Query=>Font = Tahoma 9
> windows-1252.
>

pgAdmin sets the client encoding to UTF-8 and only displays UTF-8.

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Guillaume
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Thanks, Guillaume! That answers everything. Happy holidays to all!
-Mark