Re: db encoding

Andrew Dunstan writes:

> Yes, but when I asked that question at least one voice piped up (Debian
> package maintainer, I think) to say that these were still needed as
> standalone programs. However, I have already replaced the calls I
> previously had to these from the C version (pg_id a few days ago,
> pg_encoding a few minutes ago ;-) )

There is no reason to keep pg_id, because the only reason it exists is
that the standard 'id' program does not behave sanely on some platforms.
pg_id is in fact a near-copy of a subset of an existing 'id'
implementation.

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.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net