Hi, I'm not a Pg user but:
What's the character encoding used for the DB table? Does it match what the client_encoding variable is set to? Is your CSV data read in as UTF-8? It sounds like part of your system is not set up to handle high unicode characters (which is what I think you mean by "alphabetic diacritics").

Also, why are you checking for dupes in the Perl code? The database should handle that, with a clause like "if not exists" or something like that (I don't know if Pg, like MySQL, offers "insert ... on duplicate key update ..." syntax).


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In reply to Re: Matching alphabetic diacritics with Perl and Postgresql by 1nickt
in thread Matching alphabetic diacritics with Perl and Postgresql by anonymized user 468275

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