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From: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net>
> 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 will be a new C version on my
> web site tonight, including inline calls to
> pg_char_to_encoding()/pg_valid_server_encoding and signal handling
> (these are actually the only 2 things we need libpq for).
>
New version has passed basic Windows tests, and is available (with new
Makefile too) at http://www.dunslane.net/~andrew/Initdb_In_C.html
constructive comments (very) welcome.
cheers
andrew