Andrew Dunstan writes: > Yes, but when I asked that question at least one voice piped up (Debian > package maintainer, I think) to say that these were still needed as > standalone programs. However, I have already replaced the calls I > previously had to these from the C version (pg_id a few days ago, > pg_encoding a few minutes ago ;-) )
There is no reason to keep pg_id, because the only reason it exists is that the standard 'id' program does not behave sanely on some platforms. pg_id is in fact a near-copy of a subset of an existing 'id' implementation. About pg_encoding. There is currently no way to tell whether an encoding exists. Normally you would put this kind of thing into a system table, but doing that is a bit tricky with the encodings. I would like to see pg_encoding go, so let's hear what information people need and give them a direct way to access it. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
