Re: dump postgres cluster with different encodings

On 03/05/2015 02:48 AM, basti wrote:
> Hello I have a postgres cluster with following databases
>
> davical | pgadmin | UTF8 | en_US.utf8 |
> en_US.utf8 |
> test | test | LATIN9 | en_US.iso885915 |
> en_US.iso885915 |
> foo | postgres | SQL_ASCII | en_US.iso885915 |
> en_US.iso885915 |
>
> when I try to dump this cluster with pg_dump or pg_dumpall I get errors
> like:
>
> pg_dump -E utf8 -i -p 5432 -F c -b -v -f "davical.backup" davical
> pg_dump: [archiver (db)] connection to database "davical" failed:
> FATAL: database locale is incompatible with operating system
> DETAIL: The database was initialized with LC_COLLATE "en_US.utf8",
> which is not recognized by setlocale().
> HINT: Recreate the database with another locale or install the missing
> locale.
>
>
> I can't connect to this database via pgadmin, there is the same error.
>
> locale -a
> C
> C.UTF-8
> de_DE.utf8
> en_US.iso885915
> en_US.utf8
> POSIX
>
> how can I dump this cluster? and connect to database?

Some more information is needed.

What is your OS and version?

What is version of Postgres?

How did the database get created?

What happens if you do not use -E?

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