Re: db encoding

On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 19:30, Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> About pg_encoding. There is currently no way to tell whether an encoding
> exists. Normally you would put this kind of thing into a system table,
> but doing that is a bit tricky with the encodings. I would like to see
> pg_encoding go, so let's hear what information people need and give them a
> direct way to access it.

I currently use pg_encoding in Debian's automatic upgrade script to
extract the existing default encoding from pg_database, thus:

$ psql -q -t -d template1 -c "select encoding from pg_database where
datname = 'template1'"
0

and then I use it to translate that number into an encoding name that
can be fed to initdb.

However, on looking at this, I can see that I don't need it, since I can
just as well do

$ psql -l | grep template1 | awk '{print $5}'
SQL_ASCII

so as to achieve the same result with only a single command.

Therefore, you don't need to keep pg_encoding for my (the Debian
package's) sake.

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