Re: Retiring some encodings?

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Retiring some encodings?
Date: 2025-06-06 01:42:20
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On Thu, Jun 05, 2025 at 08:05:20PM -0400, Andres Freund wrote:
> There has been plenty discussion about GB18030, and it seems we aren't likely
> to be able to drop that.

Yes, as per upthread.

> I think there are a lot easier cases though. The easiest probably is
> MULE_INTERNAL - all discussions referencing it seem to be about oddities of
> MULE_INTERNAL, not about using it. I think it's been effectively unused since
> it's introduction. Due to not even having a conversion path to UTF-8 it's
> really not practically usable IMO.

Perhaps, yes. I still need to do some homework here and gather some
data to share, FWIW.
--
Michael

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