I'm going to be accessing a Postgres database through DB2 Federated Server and extracting/inserting with IBM Optim. I want to verify that Optim and DB2 are not corrupting text characters. This SQL should generate a sample set of characters: Select genseries, chr( genseries) from generate_series(1,2000) as genseries After extracting with Optim and inserting into a new table, I can write a simple query to compare the tables for differences. The Postgres database is using UTF8 encoding. I'm not sure if the chr function is the best way to generate a sample set of characters and I'm not if this is the correct range. I would appreciate any feedback on this approach and welcome suggestions on another approach. Thanks Alex -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general