Re: #postgresql report

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: #postgresql report
Date: 2004-06-15 16:55:42
Message-ID: 200406151855.42259.peter_e@gmx.net
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> * We have a request for how to change database encoding every other
> day

This is pretty much impossible. It's analogous to changing, say, the
endianness of all integers. You would need to rewrite the entire
database. But pg_dump & restore already does that.

> (i suggest a warning in initdb if no encoding is specified -
> EVERY pgsql newbie fails to set it)

Hm...

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