Re: BUG #2683: spi_exec_query in plperl returns column names which are not marked as UTF8 - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 04:43:17PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> ISTM the real question is what do we buy if we make such
>> a restriction?  Getting rid of a few small ifdefs doesn't seem like
>> an adequate reason.  Is there some major improvement we could make?

> UTF-8 handling much improved in 5.8.

And?  Sure there are good reasons why someone might want to use 5.8
instead of 5.6, but how is that a reason for us to remove 5.6 support?

            regards, tom lane