--- Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> ow <oneway_111(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> > Are there any negative effects related to the selection of UTF-8 over
> SQL_ASCII
>
> There will be a speed penalty; whether it's significant in your
> application is something you can only determine by experiment.
I see... If *ALL* data is in ASCII, is it possible to just update
"pg_database.encoding" to UTF-8 or will I need to recreate the db?
Thanks
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