convert database to unicode

[David Lutz]

Hello, I want to convert an existing database with
SQL_ASCII encoding to UNICODE encoding.

(postgresql ver 7.3.2)

I thought that it might be as easy as:
pg_dump mydatabase > dump.sql
createdb --encoding=unicode newdatabase
psql newdatabase < dump.sql

but it wasn't going to be that easy now was it :-(

I'm getting errors such as:
ERROR: copy: line 54, Invalid UNICODE character
sequence found (0xe46765)
lost synchronization with server, resetting connection

Can anyone suggest a way I might be able to do it?
Thanks, David
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[Gianni Mariani]

David Lutz wrote:

Hello, I want to convert an existing database with
SQL_ASCII encoding to UNICODE encoding.

(postgresql ver 7.3.2)

I thought that it might be as easy as:
pg_dump mydatabase > dump.sql
createdb --encoding=unicode newdatabase
psql newdatabase < dump.sql

but it wasn't going to be that easy now was it :-(

I'm getting errors such as:
ERROR: copy: line 54, Invalid UNICODE character
sequence found (0xe46765)
lost synchronization with server, resetting connection

Can anyone suggest a way I might be able to do it?
Thanks, David

You *might* be able to convert dump.sql to unicode.

i.e.

iconv -f iso8859-1 -t utf-8 < dump.sql > dump-utf-8.sql

If all the bytea chars are appropriately escaped, this may do it.

Can't harm in giving it a go !



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[David Lutz]

--- Gianni Mariani <gi****@mariani.ws> wrote: > David
Lutz wrote:

Hello, I want to convert an existing database with
SQL_ASCII encoding to UNICODE encoding.

(postgresql ver 7.3.2)

I thought that it might be as easy as:
pg_dump mydatabase > dump.sql
createdb --encoding=unicode newdatabase
psql newdatabase < dump.sql

You *might* be able to convert dump.sql to unicode.

i.e.

iconv -f iso8859-1 -t utf-8 < dump.sql >
dump-utf-8.sql

If all the bytea chars are appropriately escaped,
this may do it.

Can't harm in giving it a go !

Thanks Gianni, yes that appears to have worked.
I didn't know about the iconv command.

Cheers, David

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