Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> 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.

As long as client code only uses the names, I suppose we are OK. I'm a
bit worried about that assumption though, since it's not like the
numbers aren't exposed to view in pg_database and pg_conversion ...

regards, tom lane

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