Re: Retiring some encodings?

Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>

From: Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-06-06T01:42:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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