"Phillip Smith" <phillip.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I've been thinking about this, and while I don't agree it's a bug, I think > that perhaps PostgreSQL should raise a notice or warning that the > destination database has different encoding than the file being restored...? If Postgres actually *knows* that the encodings are different, it can deal with that. The cases that are problematic are where the software has been misinformed for one reason or another. I doubt that a warning issued (or not) on the basis of misinformation will be especially helpful. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org