Re: SQL ASCII encoding

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:15:18PM +0200, Harald Fuchs wrote:
> In article <20060405135419(dot)GD18401(at)svana(dot)org>,
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
>
> > As a british user, latin9 will cover most of your needs, unless
> > ofcourse someone wants to enter their name in chinese :)
>
> Since british users don't use French OE ligatures or Euro currency
> signs, even latin1 would do.

However as a British PostgreSQL user, I would really like to encourage
the O.P. to use UNICODE for _every_ database.

My question: Is it possible to upgrade a database from ASCII to
UNICODE without dumping and restoring?

Rich.

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