Re: Retiring some encodings?

On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 10:02:16AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Agreed on notification.  A radical idea would be to add a warning for
> the use of such encodings in PG 18, and then mention their deprecation
> in the PG 18 release notes so everyone is informed they will be removed
> in PG 19.

With v18beta1 already out in the wild, I think that we are too late
for taking any action on this version at this stage.  Putting a
deprecation notice for a selected set of conversions and/or encodings
and do the actual removal work when v20 opens up around July 2026
would sound like a better timing here, if the overall consensus goes
in this direction, of course.
--
Michael