Re: help from Portugal

Hi Pedro,

What have you in your dump file ? (nestlé or NESTLÉ)

Be careful, your accents are not same in yours query '%nestlé%' and
'%NESTLÈ%'. It could be your problem.

Bruno


Pedro Miguel Guedes wrote:

>I have a crazy problem here.
>Nobody seems to known why.
>I am not a database expert nor do known much about
>Postgres.
>I am just a system administrator trying to move a database from
>one system to another.
>O the old system (slackware linux) the postgres was downloaded
>an compiled from source.
>O the new system (Red Hat 9.0) the postgres was installed from
>rpm precompiled binaries.
>Everything seemed ok.
>I pg_dump from the original.
>I createdb anf pg_restore on the destination.
>
>On the old system I did the query:
>SELECT * FROM contactos WHERE empresa_nome ILIKE ´%nestlé%´;
>
>and it did work
>O the new system it does not produce nothing!???
>
>if I do
>SELECT * FROM contactos WHERE empresa_nome ILIKE ´%NESTLÈ%´;
>it works!
>
>For queried material where accent on letters does not matter like NISA/nisa
>there are no problems with the query.
>
>The problem seems to be on accent on letters. So I thought maybe some stuff
>on charsets/encoding and I tried all the advices on the html/docs changing
>database and client encodings to LATIN1 (it was SQL_ASCII) to no help.
>Environ var like LANG and LC_ALL equal "pt_PT" on /etc/init.d/postgres.
>
>The guys who did the programming on the dadbase do not known any clues.
>Me, has I said, I am not expert and I a bit lost not knowing what to do
>next.
>
>Do you have any ideas?
>
>Thanks for any help
>
>Pedro Guedes
>PORTUGAL
>pmg01@netc.pt
>
>
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