Re: Bug in exporting results to file

Yes but it will take a little time. I will post a backup that can be
restored but probably not till later on in the week.

Mike

On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 08:18, Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Mike G. wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I read the faq about the problem where pgadmin won't display data if
> > it cannot convert the data due to an encoding issue.
> >
> > I have a table created under Latin1. When doing a select * from that
> > table and exporting the results to a file pgadmin was dropping a row
> > without warning. That row was being displayed within a pgadmin
> > window and one of the columns did have data in it that appeared to
> > not be converting correctly.
> >
> > By selecting the export encoding method of utf-8 and then exporting
> > the result that row would appear in the file. If no default method
> > was selected or the local charset selected (probably utf-16 since
> > this is on WinXP) the row would not be exported to the file.
> >
> > Shouldn't pgadmin generate a warning that all rows were not exported
> > or abort the export process instead of silently removing the row?
>
> I agree, pgAdmin shouldn't write garbage silently. Can you provide an
> example?
>
> Regards,
> Andreas