Thread: db encoding
Howdy.
Once a database is created , is there any easy way to change its encoding?
I have several created with SQL_ASCII encoding, which I now realize is an encoding not very recommendable.
Nothing is said here about that.
Is it possible?
Best,
Oliveiros
"Oliveiros Cristina" <oliveiros.cristina@marktest.pt> writes: > Once a database is created , is there any easy way to change its encoding? Nope --- you have to dump and reload into a new database created with the correct encoding setting. > I have several created with SQL_ASCII encoding, which I now realize is > an encoding not very recommendable. The problem with SQL_ASCII is that you don't really know what encoding you've got, so even "dump and reload" may not be enough --- you may have to fix any encoding problems that are in the data now. I'd suggest pg_dump into plain text format so you can massage the data easily. regards, tom lane