Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > On 09/05/2013 09:42 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> >>Other ideas? Are there legitimate uses for SQL_ASCII? > > > >Migrating from MySQL. We've had some projects where we couldn't fix > >MySQL's non-enforcement text garbage, and had to use SQL_ASCII on the > >receiving side. If it hadn't been available, the user would have given > >up on Postgres. > > iconv? Command Prompt helped a customer normalize encodings in their data, which was a mixture of Latin1 and UTF8. PGLoader was used for this, in two stages; the first run in UTF8 saved the rejected data to a file which was loaded in the second run as Latin1. This worked like a charm. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
