[ADMIN] invalid UTF-8 byte sequences and iconv

2006-07-25 Thread Karen Springer
Hi, We have set up a new server and are needing to move our database from 7.3 to 8.1.4. On restore I'm getting the 'invalid UTF-8 byte sequence' error message. If I use the command iconv -c -f UTF-8 -t UTF-8 -o cleanfile.sql dumpfile.sql, then the characters are deleted and the restore goes

[ADMIN] Need to upgrade postgres 7.4 to 8.1

2006-08-04 Thread Karen Springer
I had the same problem last week. iconv cleaned up my dump file, but removed characters I actually wanted (degree & micro symbols). I tried changing the encoding to Latin1 in my pg_dumpall file. This did seem to help some, though there was still a problem with some of the characters. I fina

[ADMIN] front-end to Postgres

2006-08-18 Thread Karen Springer
thers? Java? AJAX? PHP? Any suggestions would be much appreciated. We don't mind something with a learning curve. We use open source where we can (Fedora, Postgres, Bugzilla), but could probably talk management into spending money for a good solution. -- Karen Springer -