I have a database which was created as LATIN1 (the machine has the wrong locales installed when I set up PG). It is running 8.3. So I found various places which said the way to do this was to do a pg_dumpall -f dump_file, get rid of the entire database, init_db -E UTF-8, and then psql -f dumpfile. But the psql fails saying:- psql:dumpfile:49: ERROR: encoding LATIN1 does not match server's locale en_GB.UTF-8 DETAIL: The server's LC_CTYPE setting requires encoding UTF8. I have en_GB.UTF-8 now as my primary locale, and en_GB.ISO8859-1 is also generated. So I looked around again and found people saying I needed to use iconv, but that does not help, I get the same error. Is there a definative HOWTO that I can follow, if not does someone have a set of instructions that will work? If it matters I am running under Debian. David -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general