On 26/11/2008 14:40, Ronald Vyhmeister wrote: > The problem is that the database is UTF8, and it won't let me use the > convert_to function because it says that the characters don't exist... What > I need to do is to pull the UTF8 from the database, tell postgres that it's > 8859-1, and then convert it to WIN1251... How?
If the DB is in UTF8, you ought to be able to issue set client_encoding to 'WIN1251' after connection, and the conversion happens automatically. See: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/multibyte.html#AEN27483 HTH, Ray. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway Cathedral, Ireland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galway Cathedral Recitals: http://www.galwaycathedral.org/recitals ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
