On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 10:20:41AM -0600, Sbob wrote: > All; > > > We are converting from DB2 on the mainframe to PostgreSQL 14 in the cloud. > We have been using IIDR to dump DB2 tables to CSV files and then using > pg_loader / COPY to import the files. However the DB2 Encoding is EBCDIC and > the PostgreSQL db encoding is UTF8, this is causing some rows / columns to > fail when we try to load the data into PostgreSQL > > Will we be better off changing the PostgreSQL encoding to match the DB2 > database? Will this cause other issues down the road? Is there a 'best > practice' for this use case? I would convert the dump file to be UTF8 using iconv and then load it. I would also suggest setting the _client_ encoding to EBCDIC and have the server encoding be UTF8, but we don't support EBCDIC as far as I can tell. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com Indecision is a decision. Inaction is an action. Mark Batterson
