Changing DB Encodings

From: Naz Gassiep <naz(at)mira(dot)net>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Changing DB Encodings
Date: 2007-07-07 22:15:41
Message-ID: 4690108D.2020608@mira.net
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Why have I been told that I need to do a re initdb to change the char
encoding? The man says i can just createdb foodb -E utf8 so why
would i need to dump/initdb/create/restore? cant i just dump/create/restore?

It'd save all the messing around with changing the data dirs etc.

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