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From: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: Igor Korot <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: List of encodings
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:19:21 -0700
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On Friday, April 17, 2026, Igor Korot <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi, ALL,
> Does the list shown in
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/multibyte.html#
> MULTIBYTE-CHARSET-SUPPORTED
> stored somewhere in INFORMATION_SCHEMA?


This wouldn’t be under the purview of information schema.  You can find
pg-specific pieces though:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/catalog-pg-conversion.html

Note the function used to convert ids to names.


>
> Or is it hard coded inside the PostgreSQL codebase?
>

 Yes.  Doesn’t preclude exposing it via SQL but we don’t do so directly.

David J.

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