Re: Retiring some encodings?

Kenneth Marshall <ktm@rice.edu>

From: Ken Marshall <ktm@rice.edu>

To: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>

Cc: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, DEVOPS_WwIT <devops@ww-it.cn>, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org>, wenhui qiu <qiuwenhuifx@gmail.com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, ZHU XIAN WEN <tony.zhu@ww-it.cn>

Date: 2025-06-05T15:14:58Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Thu, Jun 05, 2025 at 03:35:19PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Re: Michael Paquier
> > On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 06:54:49PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> > > Agreed, it seems very unappealing to remove something so important to such a
> > > large userbase.
> > 
> > Agreed that the so-said "state" level requirement would be a
> > non-starter.
> 
> Or maybe support for using these as server encodings could be
> removed, keeping the client_encoding part intact?
> 
> Christoph
> 

Hi,

Doesn't the ICU system support this encoding? They could just use it if
you still want to remove our own implementation.

Regards,
Ken