Thread: HowTo change encoding type....

<fixed><x-tad-bigger>Hi,

how do I change the encoding type in postgreSQL (8) from UTF-8 to
ISO-8859-1?



many thanks



Andrew</x-tad-bigger></fixed>

Hi,
how do I change the encoding type in postgreSQL (8) from UTF-8 to
ISO-8859-1?


many thanks


Andrew


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Andrew M wrote:
> how do I change the encoding type in postgreSQL (8) from UTF-8 to
> ISO-8859-1?

Dump your database, drop your database, recreate your database with the 
different encoding, reload your data.  Make sure the client encoding is 
set correctly during all this.

-- 
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/