Thread: Getting a list of encodings.

Is it possible to query the database system tables and get a list of
available database encodings?

i.e UTF8, LATIN2, SQL_ASCII ... etc.

I don't know what view or table to use.

Thanks for any help

Andrew


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Andrew Maclean <andrew.amaclean@gmail.com> writes:
> Is it possible to query the database system tables and get a list of
> available database encodings?

The pg_encoding_to_char() function might help you, eg

select pg_encoding_to_char(i) from generate_series(0,100) i;

            regards, tom lane

Thankyou very much.


On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Andrew Maclean <andrew.amaclean@gmail.com> writes:
>> Is it possible to query the database system tables and get a list of
>> available database encodings?
>
> The pg_encoding_to_char() function might help you, eg
>
> select pg_encoding_to_char(i) from generate_series(0,100) i;
>
>                        regards, tom lane
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Andrew J. P. Maclean
Centre for Autonomous Systems
The Rose Street Building J04
The University of Sydney  2006  NSW
AUSTRALIA
Ph: +61 2 9351 3283
Fax: +61 2 9351 7474
URL: http://www.acfr.usyd.edu.au/
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