Re: Remove dead code generation tools in src/backend/utils/mb/

Alexander Law <exclusion@gmail.com>

From: Alexander Lakhin <exclusion@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2024-07-29T15:00:00Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hello Tom and Heikki,

29.07.2024 17:15, Tom Lane wrote:
> Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi> writes:
>> These programs in src/backend/utils/mb/ are unused, and have been unused
>> and unusable since 2003:
>> iso.c
>> win1251.c
>> win866.c
>> Attached patch removes them. See commit message for a little more
>> detailed analysis.
> +1.  Seems to have been my oversight in 4c3c8c048d.

I also wonder whether src/test/locale/ still makes sense; does anyone
run those tests (I could not run a single one on a quick attempt)?

(As far as I can tell, KOI8-R fallen out of mainstream usage in Russia
twenty years ago...)

Best regards,
Alexander



Commits

  1. Remove dead generators for cyrillic encoding conversion tables