Re: Remove getpgusername()

On Sun, Jul 05, 2026 at 02:09:19AM +0300, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 03/07/2026 18:35, Thom Brown wrote:
>> This function has been deprecated for 25 years (version 7.1). Can we
>> finally tear it out?
> 
> Heh, +1 from me. One could also argue that it doesn't really do any harm.
> But I'm generally in favor of removing deprecated stuff even if they're not
> actively getting in the way, after enough time has passed.

That's what I call a historical artifact.  Removing it looks to be
simply a cleanup of pg_proc.dat.  Will do so if there are no
objections, freeing an OID is not a bad thing here.

> On a related note, the "getdatabaseencoding()" function doesn't seem to be
> documented...

Documenting it would not hurt, yes.  We use it a lot in the regression
tests, perhaps some extensions would gain some portability ideas if we
publish a few words about it.
--
Michael