Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>About pg_encoding. There is currently no way to tell whether an encoding
>exists. Normally you would put this kind of thing into a system table,
>but doing that is a bit tricky with the encodings. I would like to see
>pg_encoding go, so let's hear what information people need and give them a
>direct way to access it.
>
You need the encoding ID before you have a system to have tables in - while you are running the bootstrap code - unless
thingschange.
That isn't to say that putting the available encodings into a table isn't a good idea, though.
I'm not sure I see anywhere in the docs a ref to what encodings are available, or how to find that out - if I haven't
missedit that's something to be remedied.
cheers
andrew