On 3/16/06 12:13 AM, "Michael Glaesemann" <grzm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > SQL_ASCII is *not* ASCII. See the "What's a good default encoding?" > thread on this same list from today. > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2006-03/msg00685.php > > I don't believe it will discard anything on import if the database is > SQL_ASCII encoded. That might be worth a shot. I don't really understand the ramifications, though, especially given Tom's warning. I guess as long as I don't care about things like sort order for those fields, it may not matter much. Wes