Re: Easy way to convert a database from WIN1252 to UTF8?

From: Justin Graf <justin(at)magwerks(dot)com>
To: Mike Christensen <mike(at)kitchenpc(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Easy way to convert a database from WIN1252 to UTF8?
Date: 2010-07-01 17:22:23
Message-ID: 4C2CCECF.8030108@magwerks.com
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On 7/1/2010 11:08 AM, Mike Christensen wrote:
> I'd like to convert a small database to UTF8 before it becomes too
> large. I'm running on 8.3.x on Windows. It doesn't seem that pgAdmin
> has any native way of doing this, what's the easiest way to go about
> doing this? Thanks!
>
> Mike
>

Dump/Backup the database , then create a new database using utf-8
then restore the database.

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