Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Pavel Stehule wrote: >> I send my first patch for PostgreSQL - maybe ugly patch. This patch >> generate on top of dump file line with setting of current encoding. Its >> useful for languages like czech with more than one wide used encoding. >> We need informations about used encoding.
> I found this patch intersting. How do we deal with restoring a database > with a different encoding from the one dumped. Does having SET at the > top help? (Also, we use diff -c.) Yes, the SET should help; it will result in character encoding translation to whatever the database encoding is. This has been discussed before, IIRC. I was planning to commit this patch (perhaps after cleanup, haven't looked at it yet) but it's not got to the top of the todo queue... regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match