Martijn Tonies wrote:

> > While the application *can* get N by querying the charset system table,
> > it is a rather complicated task and also not very intuitive that it is
>
> IMO, it's worse: it's stupid.
>
> Why should a client application have to query system defined metadata
> from the database in order to properly use the API and get data from it?!

I was trying to be a bit more polite, but I do agree. :-)

Kjell
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