Re: change db encoding?

Am Dienstag, 27. September 2005 10:15 schrieb Gábor Farkas:
> for historical reasons ;)  (are there any other reasons),
> we have a postgres db,
> where the data are in iso-8859-15 encoding,
> but the "database encoding" is iso-8859-1.
>
> question(s):
> 1. is it possible to change the db-encoding?

You can hack pg_database directly to change it.  There shouldn't be a problem
in this case.

> 2. if it remains like it is currently, when can there be problems?

Problems will only occur for characters which are not in both -1 and -15.  For
exampel, if you have text with a Euro symbol in your database, and the server
wants to recode it to a different encoding because, say, the client runs in
UTF-8, then you will get wrong output.  So it's in your interest to fix this.

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Peter Eisentraut
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