Re: character encoding of the postgres database

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Sandeep Gupta <gupta(dot)sandeep(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: character encoding of the postgres database
Date: 2017-05-10 16:30:54
Message-ID: 12d81dd5-d8e5-a440-f117-a7e3860a79c2@2ndquadrant.com
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On 5/10/17 11:48, Sandeep Gupta wrote:
> Currently, the postgres database by has SQL_ASCII encoding.

> Is it possible to start the postgres database with UTF-8 encoding, instead
> of modifying it later.

This is done when initdb is run, with the --locale and/or --encoding option.

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