Am Sonntag, 14. August 2005 23:48 schrieb Tom Lane:
> Yeah, but don't we already have some code for that (or, actually, the
> reverse direction) in initdb? It's probably not perfect, but it'd be
> a lot better than crashing.
The reverse direction is a lot simpler because we know the set of possible
output values. I'm not sure how to do the mapping in the direction of the
OS.