Hi, I'm just guessing. If you have a database in UTF8 and your SQL-file in some encoding so what about doing this: 1. Connect to your database using psql $ psql -p ... -h ... -U ... your_database 2. Set client encoding to the encoding of your SQL-file yourdb=# \encoding your_sql_encoding 3. Load the SQL-file \i your_sql_file On 19 July 2010 01:51, Andre Lopes <lopes80andre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'am trying to import an SQL file with 3gb of INSERTS. I must to change the > encode of the file to UTF8, how can I change the encode of the file without > open it? This 3gb file crashes every program... > > Give me a clue. > > Best Regards, > > -- Sergey Konoplev Blog: http://gray-hemp.blogspot.com / Linkedin: http://ru.linkedin.com/in/grayhemp / JID/GTalk: gray.ru@xxxxxxxxx / Skype: gray-hemp / ICQ: 29353802 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general