running initdb on running database

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Subject: running initdb on running database
From: "Ben K." <bkim@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 15:10:14 -0600 (CST)


Admins,

I'm reading this post:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-novice/2005-04/msg00221.php

Is it possible and safe to run initdb again on a running database tochange encoding from SQL_ASCII to UTF8?


Will it affect new databases only or existing databases as well?



Thanks.

Ben K.
Developer
http://benix.tamu.edu

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