Re: psql \l error

From: Peter Eisentraut <e99re41(at)DoCS(dot)UU(dot)SE>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: SAKAIDA <sakaida(at)psn(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: psql \l error
Date: 2000-05-02 08:26:49
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.02A.10005021025010.13753-100000@Iller.DoCS.UU.SE
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On Tue, 2 May 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> Seems like it might be a good idea if the non-MULTIBYTE stub versions of
> pg_encoding_to_char() and friends were to return default values (eg,
> "SQL_ASCII") instead of erroring out. A MULTIBYTE version of psql
> really ought to be able to work with a non-MULTIBYTE server.

I've asked Tatsuo about this a long while ago but he didn't think it was
worth it.

> I think there are some other small incompatibilities between 7.0 psql
> and pre-7.0 servers anyway, so eliminating this one by dumbing down \l
> is probably not the way to proceed.

The oidvector thing is essentially a show stopper for this.

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