From: "Albe Laurenz" <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at> To: "Jayadevan M *EXTERN*" <Jayadevan.Maymala@ibsplc.com>, <pgsql-general@postgresql.org> Date: 12/23/2009 01:12 PM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL and character set change Sent by: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
Jayadevan M wrote: > We have a PostgreSQL server with ASCII data. We have a > requirement for the db to support UTF also. Which is the best > approach - > 1) Make a new installation, move data
This is the only and hence the best approach. It doesn't have to be a new installation, a new database with encoding UTF8 is enough.
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