Re: Differences in UTF8 between 8.0 and 8.1

[Andrej Ricnik-Bay <andrej(dot)groups(at)gmail(dot)com>]

> does strip out the invalid characters.  However, iconv reads the
> entire file into memory before it writes out any data.  This is not so
> good for multi-gigabyte dump files and doesn't allow for it to be used
> in a pipe between pg_dump and psql.
>
> Anyone have any other recommendations?  GNU recode might do it, but
> I'm a bit stymied by the syntax.  A quick perl script using
> Text::Iconv didn't work either.  I'm off to look at some other perl
> modules and will try to create a script so I can strip out the invalid
> characters.
How about an ugly kludge  ...

split -a 3 -d -b 1048576 ../path/to/dumpfile dumpfile
for i in `ls -1 dumpfile*`; do   iconv -c -f UTF8 -t UTF8 $i;done
cat dumpfile* > new_dump


Cheers,
Andrej