hi,
i had to restore a database from a pg_dump and i'm having problems with the
encoding.
it seems that the pg_dump command doesn't keep the encoding information.
does anybody can help me resolve this problem.
thanks
rute
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Henrique Alves Lima" <email_daniel_h@yahoo.com.br>
To: <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 11:00 PM
Subject: [SQL] About pg_dump
> Hi, everybody !
>
> I don't know if this is the best list to ask this question but if it
> doesn't, please forgive me (should i try pgsl-general, maybe ?)...
> We have a postgresql database in production and i've 2 questions
> about pg_dumpall boring me. We "dump" both ddl and data as SQL commands,
> so :
>
> 1. Does the created sql script respect the database encoding (will
> chars be writen as utf-8 chars or iso-8859-1 char or ...) ?
> 2. We've a bytea in one table. What exactly happens with the dumped
> data ? Is there any trouble with it ?
>
> I believe that we must to worry now (earlier). I don't want to
> expect until we must to restore database backup to descover that dumping
> data is corrupted :-)
>
>
> Thanks in advance !!!!
>
>
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