Re: WIN1250 as server encoding

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Some people have requested to add WIN1250 as an allowed server encoding.  
> So far, the order of the encoding numbers determined which ones were 
> client-only, so in order not to renumber the encodings, I could only 
> come up with the attached ugly solution.  If no one thinks of a better 
> one, we'll go with that.

Can't we just renumber them?

AFAIR, the only place where these numbers are stored is in
pg_database.datencoding, so only the server-encoding values are frozen
in any meaningful sense.  You could rearrange the numbers currently
assigned to client encodings to preserve the range property.
        regards, tom lane