Dave Price wrote:
> I used the slony scrip / pg_dump to copy the structure - does that
> mean that the encoding is the same, or is it possible that the two
> databases have a different defaul, and I need to override it?
>
> I am not a psql server configuration whiz, so I do not know how to
> check this 'definitively'
>
> aloha,
> dave
>   

pg_dump has no effect on the encoding of the database, which is decided 
at the time of creation. psql -l will give you a list of databases and 
their encodings.

Regards,

MP