Tom Lane wrote:
> AFAIR, the only place where these numbers are stored is in
> pg_database.datencoding, so only the server-encoding values are
> frozen in any meaningful sense. You could rearrange the numbers
> currently assigned to client encodings to preserve the range
> property.
Interesting. I guess I was too traumatized by the last numbering change
to ignore that possibility. Does anyone else see a problem with that?
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Peter Eisentraut
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