On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>> * We have a request for how to change database encoding every other
>> day
>
> This is pretty much impossible. It's analogous to changing, say, the
> endianness of all integers. You would need to rewrite the entire
> database. But pg_dump & restore already does that.
Just a thought here ... but, how about some sort of CREATE DATABASE
extension that would transparently do the dump/restore, with the restore
based on the new encoding?
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