Cody Caughlan <toolbag@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Ok, I see what you mean. This would create a new DB with the proper > encoding. Which is "fine", and probably what I will do. I guess I see an > ideal scenario being one where we permanently convert the template encoding > to UTF8 so going forward I dont have to worry about forgetting to adding the > encoding= 'UTF8' for every new DB I create. Well, if you're feeling brave you can mark template0 as having utf8 encoding via a manual update to pg_database. In theory that should be safe enough. If you know template1 doesn't, and never has, contained any non-ASCII data, you could do the same to it ... but it would be a lot safer to drop it and recreate from template0. See http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Adventures_in_PostgreSQL,_Episode_1 for some context. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general