On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 03:10:14PM -0600, Ben K. wrote:
>
> Admins,
>
> I'm reading this post:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-novice/2005-04/msg00221.php
>
> Is it possible and safe to run initdb again on a running database to
> change encoding from SQL_ASCII to UTF8?
>
> Will it affect new databases only or existing databases as well?
Pretty much guaranteed to be unsafe. It's also not possible unless you
hack initdb.
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Jim Nasby jim@nasby.net
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