Thanks, I knew about that one, and spent half a day cleaning up the data set before transfer.
That was exciting... Cheers, Steve On Thu, 10 May 2007 08:57:25 -0600 Dan Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Holdoway wrote: > > Are there any gotchas? I've got the opportunity to move to another database > > server for this application and yould like to take the opportunity to > > upgrade at the same time. > > Yes. One of them that got me was that in 8.0.x, you could insert "invalid" > unicode byte sequences and it would warn you but accept them just fine. In > 8.2, > this is strictly enforced and you will not be able to restore your dump file > without running a utility to "fix" the dump file. > > This change has prevented me from doing the upgrade as my dump file is nearly > 100GB and the programming design of this utility requires that the whole file > be > read into RAM before it begins processing it ( I've let it run for days and > it > doesn't complete ). I didn't think I had any Unicode in my database at all, > but > I guess there are a few instances of "noise" in there that cause this.. > > Hopefully this doesn't block someone else from upgrading. > > -Dan > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? > > http://archives.postgresql.org ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
