| From: | Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi> |
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| To: | Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Retiring some encodings? |
| Date: | 2025-05-22 11:44:39 |
| Message-ID: | 2389d802-703e-41e4-953f-12d134523ef9@iki.fi |
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On 22/05/2025 08:54, Michael Paquier wrote:
> With all that in mind, I have wanted to kick a discussion about
> potentially removing one or more encodings from the core code,
> including the backend part, the frontend part and the conversion
> routines, coupled with checks in pg_upgrade to complain with database
> or collations include the so-said encoding (the collation part needs
> to be checked when not using ICU). Just being able to removing
> GB18030 would do us a favor in the long-term, at least, but there's
> more.
+1 at high level for deprecating and removing conversions that are not
widely used anymore. As the first step, we can at least add a warning to
the documentation, that they will be removed in the future.
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Heikki Linnakangas
Neon (https://neon.tech)
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