Am Donnerstag, 17. März 2005 19:23 schrieb Tom Lane:
> It doesn't eliminate the need for initdb, because pg_conversion contains
> instances of the client-only encoding numbers. I think that clients
> know the client-only encoding numbers too, so I'm not sure we aren't
> stuck with a compatibility issue.
I think the problem case was old pg_dump versions saving the encoding number
rather than name. I don't recall any problems with renumbering the client
encodings. I believe that we in fact did that in 8.0.
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Peter Eisentraut
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