Joseph Shraibman wrote:
>>
>> In postgres UNICODE means utf8.
>
>
> Which differs from java unicode?
>
Yes. Unicode in java is 16 bit characters (I think the term for this is
UCS2), two bytes for each character, whereas utf8 is a variable length
encoding with characters represented by 1, 2 or 3 bytes.
> I notice there is no way to change a database's encoding. If I just
> change the encoding type in the pg_database to latin1 will there be data
> loss?
The recommended way to do this would be to dump the contents of the
database, create a new database with the desired character set and then
import the data into that new database. I don't know if changing
pg_database directly would work or not.
--Barry
