Jeff Amiel becauseimj...@yahoo.com writes:
It's come time to bite the bullet and convert a half-terraybyte database
from ASCII to UTF8. Have gone through a bit of effort to track down the
unclean ascii text and repair it but would like to avoid the outage of a
many-many hour dump-restore.
Vibhor Kumar wrote:
On Feb 22, 2011, at 10:23 PM, Jeff Amiel wrote:
It's come time to bite the bullet and convert a half-terraybyte database from
ASCII to UTF8. Have gone through a bit of effort to track down the unclean
ascii text and repair it but would like to avoid the outage of a
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Geoffrey Myers
g...@serioustechnology.com wrote:
I'm assuming you're saying you can replicate from an ASCII database to UTF8?
What happens to the data that is not UTF8 'friendly?'
The assumption up-thread was that the data was already made UTF8
friendly in the
It's come time to bite the bullet and convert a half-terraybyte database from
ASCII to UTF8. Have gone through a bit of effort to track down the unclean
ascii text and repair it but would like to avoid the outage of a many-many hour
dump-restore.
Using Postgres 8.4.X.
Are there any other
On Feb 22, 2011, at 10:23 PM, Jeff Amiel wrote:
It's come time to bite the bullet and convert a half-terraybyte database from
ASCII to UTF8. Have gone through a bit of effort to track down the unclean
ascii text and repair it but would like to avoid the outage of a many-many
hour
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Jeff Amiel becauseimj...@yahoo.com wrote:
I assume slony replication is an option.
this is my plan, once i finish cleaning up the code and the DB data.
you have to ensure that whatever the original DB emits (in the form of
COPY and individual updates later
