An easy question for some I hope. I have a DB from 8.2 days that when I now dump and try to take into the 8.3.7, it gives me errors about utf-8 stuff.
I tried searching this list's archives but could not come up with an answer. Google returns some sites like these: http://sniptools.com/databases/finding-non-utf8-values-in-postgresql - but I'm not clear on how to use them. Following the SQL on this site I could identify some columns that contain text like this: "Évolution générale de la situation démographique" So my guess is that the non-English characters were originally not getting written in proper utf-8 variants. Is there any SQL possibility to find these columns and replace them with utf-8 equivalents using some postgresql commands? Couldn't find anything in the "Strings functions" (chapter 9 of manual). We're on CentOS. Thanks! -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
