On 8/2/07, Barry C Dowell <barry.c.dowell.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> Ok, if you can forgive the possible stupid answer and help pull me a long a
> bit more, in answer to this:
>
> >> Yes, dump/restore is pretty much the standard to move dbs across
> architectures so we'll need more to work with. One thing to check, did you
> make sure that your dump was in the same encoding as the database you
> created on your Windows server?
>
> How do I know what encoding was used on one database (on one OS) versus the
> other?
psql -l
lists the encoding. postgresql on windows iirc defaults to sql_ascii
which is actually the most forgiving but not a great choice. linux
defaults to utf-8.
can you post the exact text of the error?
merlin