On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 12:38:21PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > This means someone who is planning on upgrading to 8.1 in two months > > can use this function now to weed out the bad data before the upgrade > > even starts. > > Oh, so you back-load it into the old database. Interesting. I assume > to be useful you would have to write something that checked every column > values in every table and database.
Umm, yeah. I was thinking about how to do that. pl/pgsql is not the best language to do that in. In any case I found a bug in the version I posted and also added a function that does: test=# select * from db_utf8_verify(); tab | fld | location ------+-----+---------- tbl1 | foo | (12,3) (1 row) It gives the table, field and ctid of any values that failed. It skips pg_catalog. It's also *really* slow for long strings. Just executing it on the pg_rewrite in the default installation takes forever. If someone really wanted this for a large database maybe they should recode it in C. http://svana.org/kleptog/pgsql/utf8_verify.sql Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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