Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> However, from an initdb POV I am assuming that we are only interested in
> the name=>number conversion, even though initdb.sh does no apparent
> checking on the parameter it is passing to pg_encoding. Please tell me
> if this is incorrect.
That's correct. I believe we intended to eliminate pg_encoding as a
separate program altogether, given a C version of initdb, since the C
code could perfectly well call pg_char_to_encoding and
pg_valid_server_encoding for itself.
regards, tom lane
