Re: [NOVICE] LATIN2->UTF8 conversation with dblink

On Feb 2, 2009, at 1:31 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Ruzsinszky Attila <ruzsinszky.attila@gmail.com> writes:
>> The situation:
>> We've got two machines. The source database (DB) is running on an
>> RHEL
>> 5.x machine
>> with PSQL 8.1.11. The destination DB is running on SuSE 11.0 with
>> PSQL 8.3.x.
>> The mechines are relative far away each other and there is a 2Mbps
>> WAN
>> line between them.
>
>> The DB is the same except the character coding. Source is LATIN2 and
>> the target DB is UTF8.
>> We wrote a trigger to copy the data from source to target with
>> dblink.
>> The problem is the
>> different DB character coding! PGSQL complains about wrong byte
>> order.
>
> Hmm.  You can presumably fix this by setting client_encoding in the
> dblink connection to match the encoding in use in the database it's
> called in.  But I wonder why dblink doesn't just do that for you
> automatically.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>


We did it like this:

INSERT INTO a tbl_datafeed
SELECT
nextval('acc_mkt.tbl_ants_to_ace_feed_row_id_seq'),
convert(project_number::bytea, 'WIN1258'::text, 'UTF8'::text),
convert(project_name::bytea, 'WIN1258'::text, 'UTF8'::text),
...
....
...
  FROM dblink('dbname=mydbname host=removehost user=someuser','SELECT
* FROM tbl_datafeed') AS p
(
...
..
...
.)

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