Re: MSSQL to PostgreSQL : Encoding problem

2006/11/22, Arnaud Lesauvage <thewild@freesurf.fr>:
> Tomi NA a écrit :
> > 2006/11/21, Arnaud Lesauvage <thewild@freesurf.fr>:
> >> Hi list !
> >>
> >> I already posted this as "COPY FROM encoding error", but I have
> >> been doing some more tests since then.
> >>
> >> I'm trying to export data from MS SQL Server to PostgreSQL.
> >> The tables are quite big (>20M rows), so a CSV export and a "COPY
> >> FROM3 import seems to be the only reasonable solution.
> >
> > I believe you might have more luck working without files altogether.
> > Use an ETL tool like kettle or even DTS with the pgsql ODBC driver.
> > That's exactly what those tools are for.
> >
> > You still have to get the encodings right, though.
> > I suggest unicode for pgsql, but only you know how the MSSQL database
> > is encoded.
>
> I think I'll go this way... No other choice, actually !
> The MSSQL database is in SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_Cl_AS.
> I don't really understand what this is. It supports the euro
> symbol, so it is probably not pure LATIN1, right ?

I suppose you'd have to look at the latin1 codepage character table
somewhere...I'm a UTF-8 guy so I'm not well suited to respond to the
question. :)

t.n.a.