| From: | Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info> |
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| To: | Johann Spies <jspies(at)sun(dot)ac(dot)za> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Problem restoring a dump |
| Date: | 2011-09-13 20:07:48 |
| Message-ID: | 1315944468.5302.0.camel@localhost.localdomain |
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On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 14:47 +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> 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?
>
No, you can't. You need to create a new one with the good encoding.
--
Guillaume
http://blog.guillaume.lelarge.info
http://www.dalibo.com
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