Re: Resolving 8.4 open items

Tom Lane wrote:
> If we are to make the proposed schedule for 8.4 (ie, wrap RC1 tomorrow)
> we've got to get pretty hard-nosed about closing out the open items at
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_8.4_Open_Items
>
> The current list is:
>
> * do we need to worry about re-encoding file path names?
>
> There is perhaps a real issue here, but it's not been explained nearly
> to my satisfaction: I do not understand how we should determine which
> encoding should be passed to the filesystem (but surely that shouldn't
> vary with the per-database locale), and it's also unclear why we
> shouldn't assume the value of PGDATA is already in that encoding.
> Perhaps the issue really applies only to file paths supplied to COPY,
> in which case the proposed patch is fixing it in the wrong place.
> I think we should just punt this question to TODO.

Is there really something new here for 8.4? Haven't we lived with this
same thing previously?

If it's not a regression, +1 for punting.

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