Users whose embedded cluster was initdb'd with an OS-locale encoding by
a pre-fix version now self-heal with zero manual steps: on the
encoding-conversion schema failure the startup factory proves the
cluster is non-UTF-8 AND empty (the baseline transaction never applied,
so no schema or migrated data can exist) and that this process owns the
postmaster, then deletes the data dir and reboots once with the UTF-8
initdb defaults. Joined instances and unproven states keep the manual
re-init hint; one retry ever, so no loops.
Verified on the elevated windows-latest runner: CI seeds a real WIN1252
cluster via initdb and proves a stock 'fn serve' auto-recovers it to a
healthy /api/health (run 29633351848, all jobs green). Also caps the
desktop-windows embedded-PG smoke at 30 min and adds a skip input.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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