Re: pg_dump on local Windows, pg_restore on Linux?

On 8/15/07, Phoenix Kiula <phoenix(dot)kiula(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Couple of questions with porting:
>
> 1. I have been playing around with my databases locally on Win XP so
> as not to hurt our website traffic. Now I would like to move the
> database to a Linux CentOS server. Can I use pg_dump on Windows and
> pg_restore it on Linux? If so, any tips on what I should keep in mind
> (e.g., manual seems to suggest that pg_restore prefers tar gzipped
> format...but I'm not sure if Windows can generate this?)
>
> 2. I would like my database to be UTF-8. I issue the command
>
> CREATE DATABASE mydb OWNER me ENCODING 'utf8';
>
> Should I add anything else to it, such as collation? I did not find
> any option for that in here:
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/sql-createdatabase.html
>
> 3. Also, just to confirm, if I have utf-8 database, then all tables in
> it should be able to take utf-8 data? I would just like these tables
> to take whatever I send to them. No error checking or encoding
> checking. Can I disable the painful error that PG keeps throwing if
> even a single erroneous byte shows up? I'd rather have 'garbage data'
> than not go through with the query.

Requirements 2 and 3 are exclusive. Either you want your database to
be UTF-8, which means that invalid byte sequences should be rejected
because they AREN'T utf-8, or you want your database to swallow
whatever you throw at it, in which case, that's not UTF-8.