Re: Retiring some encodings?

čt 22. 5. 2025 v 13:44 odesílatel Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
napsal:

> 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.
>

+1

Pavel


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