Re: #postgresql report - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: #postgresql report
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Msg-id 200406151855.42259.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to #postgresql report  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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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.

> (i suggest a warning in initdb if no encoding is specified -
> EVERY pgsql newbie fails to set it)

Hm...



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