Re: libpq5 8.3 breaks 8.2 compatibility with encodings

Martin Pitt <martin@piware.de> writes:
> However, if I use 8.2 programs with the 8.3 library, things start to
> become weird:

>   $ # kill postgres instance
>   $ rm -rf /tmp/x; LC_ALL=3Den_US.UTF-8 /usr/lib/postgresql/8.2/bin/initdb =
> --encoding UTF8 -D /tmp/x

Does anything other than initdb get weird?

For the most part I believe it's the case that libpq's idea of the enum
values is independent of the backend's.  I think the issue here is that
initdb is (mis) using libpq's pg_char_to_encoding, etc, and combining
those functions with its own idea of the meanings of the enum values.

Maybe we should stop exporting pg_char_to_encoding and so on from libpq,
though I wonder if that would break any clients.

            regards, tom lane