Nikolay Shaplov <dh...@nataraj.su> writes: > This leads me to an idea that may be as we fix "char" behaviour, we should > also > change it's name to something more speaking for itself.
I don't think this is going to happen. It's especially not going to happen in the back branches. But in any case, what I'm looking for is the minimum compatibility breakage needed to fix the encoding-unsafety problem. Renaming the type goes far beyond that. It'd likely break some client code that examines the system catalogs, for little gain. regards, tom lane