Comments on: Migrating Data from Postgres 7 to 8 http://www.cyprich.com/2007/12/10/migrating-data-from-postgres-7-to-8/ Occasionally Relevant Insights from a Software Builder Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:52:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Johan Cyprich http://www.cyprich.com/2007/12/10/migrating-data-from-postgres-7-to-8/comment-page-1/#comment-50436 Johan Cyprich Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:12:57 +0000 http://www.cyprich.com/2007/12/10/migrating-data-from-postgres-7-to-8/#comment-50436 I've written 2 scripts for exporting and importing databases using the previous technique. You may need to find the path of the sh utility with the which command (i.e. which sh). export.sh ========= #! /bin/sh pg_dump database>backup/database.sql import.sh ========= #! /bin/sh iconv -c -f UTF-8 -t UTF-8 -o clean_database.sql database.sql psql -d database -f clean_database.sql I’ve written 2 scripts for exporting and importing databases using the previous technique. You may need to find the path of the sh utility with the which command (i.e. which sh).

export.sh
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#! /bin/sh
pg_dump database>backup/database.sql

import.sh
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#! /bin/sh
iconv -c -f UTF-8 -t UTF-8 -o clean_database.sql database.sql
psql -d database -f clean_database.sql

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