From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 20:25:42 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Highlight diff idea for iconv.
X-Git-Tag: REL8_2_BETA1~1807
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=40c729ae6cbf8c1afbffeb8d1dbfcf9f52eca140;p=postgresql

Highlight diff idea for iconv.
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
index 0feacc1ec6..18a1b18280 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.405 2005/12/06 20:19:17 momjian Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.406 2005/12/06 20:25:42 momjian Exp $
 
 Typical markup:
 
@@ -532,10 +532,12 @@ psql -t -f fixseq.sql db1 | psql -e db1
        8.1.X.  This is because previous versions allowed invalid <literal>UTF8</>
        sequences to be entered into the database, and this release
        properly accepts only valid <literal>UTF8</> sequences.  One
-       way to correct a dumpfile is to use <command>iconv -c -f UTF-8 -t UTF-8</>.
-       This will remove invalid character sequences. <command>iconv</>
-       reads the entire input file into memory so it might be necessary to
-       <command>split</> the dump into multiple smaller files for processing.
+       way to correct a dumpfile is to use <command>iconv -c -f UTF-8 -t UTF-8
+       -o cleanfile.sql dumpfile.sql</>.  The <literal>-c</> option removes
+       invalid character sequences.  A diff of the two files will show the
+       sequences that are invalid.  <command>iconv</> reads the entire input 
+       file into memory so it might be necessary to <command>split</> the dump 
+       into multiple smaller files for processing.
       </para>
      </listitem>