Re: WIN1252 patch broke my database

Am Donnerstag, 17. März 2005 19:23 schrieb Tom Lane:
> It doesn't eliminate the need for initdb, because pg_conversion contains
> instances of the client-only encoding numbers.  I think that clients
> know the client-only encoding numbers too, so I'm not sure we aren't
> stuck with a compatibility issue.

I think the problem case was old pg_dump versions saving the encoding number 
rather than name.  I don't recall any problems with renumbering the client 
encodings.  I believe that we in fact did that in 8.0.

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Peter Eisentraut
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