ow <oneway_111(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> 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?
It seems risky, but you could probably get away with that as long
as the database locale (LC_COLLATE/LC_CTYPE) is "C" ... which is really
the only one that's safe with SQL_ASCII anyway ... note that
already-started backends will probably fail to notice such a change.
regards, tom lane