Re: [HACKERS] pg_proc.h changed

I've been wondering about that. Great!

On 2000-01-18, Tatsuo Ishii mentioned:

> Hi,
> 
> I have added two built-in functions:
>     pg_char_to_encoding()    -- convert encoding string to encoding id
>     pg_encoding_to_char()    -- convert encoding id to encoding string
> 
> Main purpose for this is to allow psql -l to print encoding names
> rather than encoding ids (sample output from psql shown below) in a
> multibyte enabled installation.
> 
>         List of databases
>   Database  |  Owner  | Encoding 
> ------------+---------+----------
>  regression | t-ishii | EUC_JP
>  template1  | t-ishii | EUC_JP
>  test       | t-ishii | EUC_JP
> (3 rows)
> 
> This is much more "user friendly" IMHO.
> 
> initdb required.
> --
> Tatsuo Ishii
> 
> ************
> 
> 

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