Re: Bug #814

Malcolm,

Without knowing what errors you are seeing, I can't say for sure what is
going wrong for you.  However the following seems to work for me:

pg_dump -f test.dmp testdb
createdb -E unicode newtestdb
psql -f test.dmp newtestdb

thanks,
--Barry

Malcolm Warren wrote:
> Hi Barry,
> Thank you for your reply.
> Can you tell me how to convert my database?
>
> I have tried using initdb with encoding UNICODE, and changing the
> CREATEDB line in my dump from SQL_ASCII to UNICODE, but this doesn't work.
>
> Any information welcome as I've searched the net, without finding
> anything that helps.
>
> Thanks,
> Malcolm Warren
>
>
> On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:26:36 -0700, Barry Lind <blind@xythos.com> wrote:
>
>> Malcolm,
>>
>> This has been "fixed" in the latest builds of the 7.3 driver.
>> Download from jdbc.postgresql.org.
>>
>> The "fix" was to just report a better error message in this case.  If
>> you are storing non-ascii data, you are going to need your database to
>> be running with an encoding that can store that data.  Thus in your
>> situation as you are reporting below you would need to recreate your
>> database in latinX or unicode.
>>
>> thanks,
>> --Barry
>>
>> Malcolm Warren wrote:
>>
>>> I note that this bug was opened in December 2002.
>>>
>>> To recap, you get an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException at
>>> org.postgresql.core.Encoding.decodeUTF8 in Encoding.java line 253
>>> whenever it encounters a character from the extended keyboard.
>>>
>>> I have Postgres 7.3.2 with SQL_ASCII (default?) encoding and no
>>> locale. But a lot of the text in our database is in Italian.
>>> So programmes crash as soon as they meet any italian accented
>>> character when using the new JDBC jars.
>>> I come across the same bug using both the JDBC2 and JDBC3 jars.
>>>
>>> Anyone know of plans to deal with this bug? Any information would be
>>> gratefully received.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Malcolm Warren
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