Tony Bazeley <tonyb@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I've a problem with restoring a cluster created with pg_dump_all from 14.8 > ( pg_dumpall >pgall.out and then psql -f pgall.out postgres). > ... > Attempting to restore to postgresql-16 results in errors > 2024-04-05 22:17:15.418 ACDT [6565] postgres@tonbaz ERROR: collation > "pg_catalog.C.UTF-8" for encoding "UTF8" does not exist at character 366 > I don't understand the class text COLLATE pg_catalog."C.UTF-8" syntax, but > select * from pg_collation shows a C.UTF8 but no C.UTF-8 I take it you are trying to restore onto a different OS platform with different locale naming conventions. The easiest way to deal with it probably is to edit the dump file and change "C.UTF-8" to "C.UTF8" everywhere. (Manually editing an 8G dump file might be no fun, but "sed" should make short work of it.) regards, tom lane
