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From Andrew Dunstan
Subject db encoding
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Msg-id 3F81A7F8.5080208@dunslane.net
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Responses Re: db encoding  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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pg_encoding appears to have 2 personalities, (name=>number and vice 
versa) depending on whther or not its parameter begins with a digit 
(which is in itself fragile - what if you gave it "3foo"?).

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.

thanks

andrew



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