Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Explicitly bind gettext to the correct encoding on Windows. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Explicitly bind gettext to the correct encoding on Windows.
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Msg-id 499821F3.7050004@hagander.net
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In response to Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Explicitly bind gettext to the correct encoding on Windows.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Explicitly bind gettext to the correct encoding on Windows.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> mha@postgresql.org (Magnus Hagander) writes:
>> Explicitly bind gettext to the correct encoding on Windows.
> 
> I have a couple of objections to this patch.  First, what happens if
> it fails to find a matching table entry?  (The existing answer is
> "nothing", but that doesn't seem right.)  Second and more critical,
> it adds still another data structure that has to be maintained when
> the list of encodings changes, and it doesn't even live in the same
> file as any existing encoding-information table.
> 
> What makes more sense to me is to add a table to encnames.c that
> provides the gettext name of every encoding that we support.

Do you mean a separate table there, or should we add a new column to one
of the existing tables?

//Magnus



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