Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
> However, my personal preference is to treat the name of the database as
> a "bunch of bits" ie, don't consider it encoded at all.
That's essentially what we are doing as far as the StartupMessage is
concerned. Doesn't really solve the problem of post-startup accesses to
the shared catalogs, however.
regards, tom lane