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From:	"David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To:	Igor Korot <ikorot01(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc:	"pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject:	Re: List of encodings
Date:	2026-04-18 07:19:21
Message-ID:	CAKFQuwZOH6BPtaWJKr9jRGxdJt05YtLAZn1s_fYt=uzAASm9CQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Friday, April 17, 2026, Igor Korot <ikorot01(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi, ALL,
> Does the list shown in
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/multibyte.html#
> MULTIBYTE-CHARSET-SUPPORTED
> stored somewhere in INFORMATION_SCHEMA?

This wouldn’t be under the purview of information schema. You can find
pg-specific pieces though:

Note the function used to convert ids to names.

>
> Or is it hard coded inside the PostgreSQL codebase?
>

Yes. Doesn’t preclude exposing it via SQL but we don’t do so directly.

David J.

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