From: | Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Upcoming PG re-releases |
Date: | 2005-12-08 22:37:39 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.58.0512090932030.12041@linuxworld.com.au |
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On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> Exactly what does vim do that iconv does not? Fuzzy encoding sounds
> scary to me.
>
Right. It actually makes assumptions about the source encoding. People who
care about their data need, unfortunately, to spend a bit of time on this
problem. I've been discussing the same issue on the slony1 mailing list,
because the issue can affect people's ability upgrade using slony1.
http://gborg.postgresql.org/pipermail/slony1-general/2005-December/003430.html
It would be good if had the script I suggest in the email:
A script which identifies non-utf-8 characters and provides some
context, line numbers, etc, will greatly speed up the process of
remedying the situation.
Thoughts?
Gavin
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