Changing DB Encodings - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Naz Gassiep
Subject Changing DB Encodings
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Msg-id 4690108D.2020608@mira.net
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Responses Re: Changing DB Encodings
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Why have I been told that I need to do a re initdb to change the char
encoding? The man says i can just     createdb foodb -E utf8    so why
would i need to dump/initdb/create/restore? cant i just dump/create/restore?

It'd save all the messing around with changing the data dirs etc.


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