Was thinking if someone could summarize this all it would make a really good FAQ entry.
Robert Treat On Friday 09 December 2005 13:28, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 12:38:21PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > This means someone who is planning on upgrading to 8.1 in two months > > > can use this function now to weed out the bad data before the upgrade > > > even starts. > > > > Oh, so you back-load it into the old database. Interesting. I assume > > to be useful you would have to write something that checked every column > > values in every table and database. > > Umm, yeah. I was thinking about how to do that. pl/pgsql is not the > best language to do that in. In any case I found a bug in the version I > posted and also added a function that does: > > test=# select * from db_utf8_verify(); > tab | fld | location > ------+-----+---------- > tbl1 | foo | (12,3) > (1 row) > > It gives the table, field and ctid of any values that failed. It skips > pg_catalog. It's also *really* slow for long strings. Just executing it > on the pg_rewrite in the default installation takes forever. If someone > really wanted this for a large database maybe they should recode it in > C. > > http://svana.org/kleptog/pgsql/utf8_verify.sql > > Have a nice day, -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
