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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [GENERAL] character encoding of the postgres database
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In response to [GENERAL] character encoding of the postgres database  (Sandeep Gupta <gupta.sandeep@gmail.com>)
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On 5/10/17 11:48, Sandeep Gupta wrote:
> Currently, the postgres database by has SQL_ASCII encoding.

> Is it possible to start the postgres database with UTF-8 encoding, instead
> of modifying it later.

This is done when initdb is run, with the --locale and/or --encoding option.

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