On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 21:31, Tom Lane wrote:
> Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> writes:
> > I currently use pg_encoding in Debian's automatic upgrade script to
> > extract the existing default encoding from pg_database, thus:
> > $ psql -q -t -d template1 -c "select encoding from pg_database where
> > datname = 'template1'"
> > 0
> > and then I use it to translate that number into an encoding name that
> > can be fed to initdb.
>
> But you can do that with pg_encoding_to_char:
So I see -- now, but I had missed its very existence, I'm afraid.
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