Re: psql \l error

On Tue, 2 May 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> Seems like it might be a good idea if the non-MULTIBYTE stub versions of
> pg_encoding_to_char() and friends were to return default values (eg,
> "SQL_ASCII") instead of erroring out.  A MULTIBYTE version of psql
> really ought to be able to work with a non-MULTIBYTE server.

I've asked Tatsuo about this a long while ago but he didn't think it was
worth it.

> I think there are some other small incompatibilities between 7.0 psql
> and pre-7.0 servers anyway, so eliminating this one by dumbing down \l
> is probably not the way to proceed.

The oidvector thing is essentially a show stopper for this.


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