Re: Upcoming PG re-releases

Nice, updated.

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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > One nice solution would be if iconv would report the lines with
> > errors and you could correct them, but I see no way to do that. The
> > only thing you could do is to diff the old and new files to see the
> > problems. Is that helpful? Here is new text I have used:
>
> I think this is nice. It users see a big mess, they will have to clean
> it up by hand anyway.
>
> How about this for better wording:
>
> diff -u -3 -p -r1.400.2.4 release.sgml
> --- doc/src/sgml/release.sgml 6 Dec 2005 20:26:02 -0000 1.400.2.4
> +++ doc/src/sgml/release.sgml 6 Dec 2005 20:44:26 -0000
> @@ -528,15 +528,16 @@ psql -t -f fixseq.sql db1 | psql -e db1
>
> <listitem>
> <para>
> - Some users are having problems loading <literal>UTF8</> data into
> - 8.1.X. This is because previous versions allowed invalid <literal>UTF8</>
> + Some users are having problems loading utf-8 data into
> + 8.1.X. This is because previous versions allowed invalid utf-8 byte
> sequences to be entered into the database, and this release
> - properly accepts only valid <literal>UTF8</> sequences. One
> - way to correct a dumpfile is to use <command>iconv -c -f utf-8 -t utf-8
> + properly accepts only valid utf-8 sequences. One
> + way to correct a dumpfile is to run the command <command>iconv -c -f utf-8 -t utf-8
> -o cleanfile.sql dumpfile.sql</>. The <literal>-c</> option removes
> invalid character sequences. A diff of the two files will show the
> sequences that are invalid. <command>iconv</> reads the entire input
> - file into memory so it might be necessary to <command>split</> the dump
> + file into memory so it might be necessary to use <command>split</>
> + to break up the dump
> into multiple smaller files for processing.
> </para>
> </listitem>
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut
> http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
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