Re: SQL ASCII encoding - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Richard Jones
Subject Re: SQL ASCII encoding
Date
Msg-id 20060411201530.GA29483@furbychan.cocan.org
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In response to Re: SQL ASCII encoding  (Harald Fuchs <hf0923x@protecting.net>)
List pgsql-general
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:15:18PM +0200, Harald Fuchs wrote:
> In article <20060405135419.GD18401@svana.org>,
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
>
> > As a british user, latin9 will cover most of your needs, unless
> > ofcourse someone wants to enter their name in chinese :)
>
> Since british users don't use French OE ligatures or Euro currency
> signs, even latin1 would do.

However as a British PostgreSQL user, I would really like to encourage
the O.P. to use UNICODE for _every_ database.

My question: Is it possible to upgrade a database from ASCII to
UNICODE without dumping and restoring?

Rich.

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