Re: prevent encoding conversion recursive error

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Am Dienstag, 9. August 2005 04:51 schrieb Tom Lane:
>> which leads to the question "why aren't we using
>> bind_textdomain_codeset() to tell gettext what character set it should
>> produce"?

> That would probably require us to solve the question on how to translate
> PostgreSQL encoding names to OS encoding names.

Yeah, but don't we already have some code for that (or, actually, the
reverse direction) in initdb?  It's probably not perfect, but it'd be
a lot better than crashing.

            regards, tom lane