Re: [GENERAL] v8.3 + UTF8 errors when restoring DB

2008-03-10 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Mitchell D. Russell escribió: I did a PG_dump of the database tonight, and went to restore it to my newly created database (WIN2152 encoding), which worked fine, but when I go to retrieve the data via my code (.NET c#), I get errors like : character 0x8f of encoding WIN1252 has no

[GENERAL] v8.3 + UTF8 errors when restoring DB

2008-03-09 Thread Mitchell D. Russell
New to the list, so please forgive me in advance :) I've been running 8.2 on windows server 2003 for quite some time now. The database that I take care of stores records with various languages in it (russian, chinese, etc) and has been working fine. I did a PG_dump of the database tonight, and

Re: [GENERAL] v8.3 + UTF8 errors when restoring DB

2008-03-09 Thread Mitchell D. Russell
Just as an update to this matter, I created another new database with SQL_ASCII encoding and imported the data, and it worked fine, however, I don't think that's the best solution because SQL_ASCII's not a good way to have the database encoding set, right? Thanks again for any suggestions.

Re: [GENERAL] v8.3 + UTF8 errors when restoring DB

2008-03-09 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 06:12:14AM -0400, Mitchell D. Russell wrote: Just as an update to this matter, I created another new database with SQL_ASCII encoding and imported the data, and it worked fine, however, I don't think that's the best solution because SQL_ASCII's not a good way to have

Re: [GENERAL] v8.3 + UTF8 errors when restoring DB

2008-03-09 Thread Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)
On 2008-03-09 01:45, Mitchell D. Russell wrote: New to the list, so please forgive me in advance :) I've been running 8.2 on windows server 2003 for quite some time now. The database that I take care of stores records with various languages in it (russian, chinese, etc) and has been working

Re: [GENERAL] v8.3 + UTF8 errors when restoring DB

2008-03-09 Thread Mitchell D. Russell
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Gibson (DB Administrator) Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 9:58 AM To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] v8.3 + UTF8 errors when restoring DB Well, you partially hosed yourself when you did the dump using a 'client_encoding

Re: [GENERAL] v8.3 + UTF8 errors when restoring DB

2008-03-09 Thread Dean Gibson (DB Administrator)
On 2008-03-09 11:49, Mitchell D. Russell wrote: Dean: I did the dump as so: psql –Upostgres databasename c:\temp\dump.sql I assume you meant pg_dump, not psql. I think the database was set to SQL_ASCII before I dumped it, because when I did the 2^nd restore last night to a new

Re: [GENERAL] v8.3 + UTF8 errors when restoring DB

2008-03-09 Thread Raymond O'Donnell
On 09/03/2008 18:49, Mitchell D. Russell wrote: I think the database was set to SQL_ASCII before I dumped it, because when I did the 2^nd restore last night to a new SQL_ASCII database, it worked fine, so that’s where I am at right now, the database is running fine on 8.3 as SQL_ASCII but I