Re: List of encodings

Igor Korot <ikorot01@gmail.com>

From: Igor Korot <ikorot01@gmail.com>
To: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>, "pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org" <pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2026-04-21T04:22:00Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Hi, everybody,

On Mon, Apr 20, 2026 at 8:29 PM David G. Johnston
<david.g.johnston@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr 20, 2026 at 7:47 PM Igor Korot <ikorot01@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> My understanding is that if I have 3 "BIG5" encodings, only one can be
>> a default.
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> That would be a misunderstanding of what a conversion table is about.

What I did:

1. Google "PostgreSQL create database"
2. Click the first link - to PostgreSQL documentation.
3. The command have many options. One of them is "Encoding".
4, Scrolled down for an explanation. The explanation had a link.
5. Clicked the link. Received a page with the list of encodings.

At this point I asked the original question
Does the list on that page stored somewhere? Or it is hardcoded inside
the sources?

That's when I started receiving a references to that table.

Did I ask the wrong question?

Thank you.

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> David J.
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