Re: enabling multibyte ...

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: enabling multibyte ...
Date: 2003-09-09 23:19:05
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0309100117510.1210-100000@peter.localdomain
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Marc G. Fournier writes:

> When we installed v7.2.4 on our server, multibyte wasn't compiled in ...
> does enabling multibyte require a dump/reload if only new databases are
> going to require it, and not existing ones?

No need to dump/reload. You can even manually change the declared
encoding of existing databases. It's up to you whether the data stored in
them actually matches the encoding.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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