diff --git a/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-12.18.ebuild b/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-12.18.ebuild
index 8365c87252427..115a0eb86e446 100644
--- a/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-12.18.ebuild
+++ b/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-12.18.ebuild
@@ -398,13 +398,6 @@ pkg_config() {
 	# overridden in the initscript
 	sed '/^#unix_socket_directories/,+1d' -i "${PGDATA%/}"/postgresql.conf
 
-	cat <<- EOF >> "${PGDATA%/}"/postgresql.conf
-		# This is here because of https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518522
-		# On the off-chance that you might need to work with UTF-8 encoded
-		# characters in PL/Perl
-		plperl.on_init = 'use utf8; use re; package utf8; require "utf8_heavy.pl";'
-	EOF
-
 	einfo "The autovacuum function, which was in contrib, has been moved to the main"
 	einfo "PostgreSQL functions starting with 8.1, and starting with 8.4 is now enabled"
 	einfo "by default. You can disable it in the cluster's:"
diff --git a/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-12.19-r1.ebuild b/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-12.19-r1.ebuild
index 3acab14353295..7f5912e856fcc 100644
--- a/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-12.19-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-12.19-r1.ebuild
@@ -398,13 +398,6 @@ pkg_config() {
 	# overridden in the initscript
 	sed '/^#unix_socket_directories/,+1d' -i "${PGDATA%/}"/postgresql.conf
 
-	cat <<- EOF >> "${PGDATA%/}"/postgresql.conf
-		# This is here because of https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518522
-		# On the off-chance that you might need to work with UTF-8 encoded
-		# characters in PL/Perl
-		plperl.on_init = 'use utf8; use re; package utf8; require "utf8_heavy.pl";'
-	EOF
-
 	einfo "The autovacuum function, which was in contrib, has been moved to the main"
 	einfo "PostgreSQL functions starting with 8.1, and starting with 8.4 is now enabled"
 	einfo "by default. You can disable it in the cluster's:"
diff --git a/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-13.14.ebuild b/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-13.14.ebuild
index 60d28d2d7d084..0926b6f003a2a 100644
--- a/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-13.14.ebuild
+++ b/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-13.14.ebuild
@@ -406,13 +406,6 @@ pkg_config() {
 	# overridden in the initscript
 	sed '/^#unix_socket_directories/,+1d' -i "${PGDATA%/}"/postgresql.conf
 
-	cat <<- EOF >> "${PGDATA%/}"/postgresql.conf
-		# This is here because of https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518522
-		# On the off-chance that you might need to work with UTF-8 encoded
-		# characters in PL/Perl
-		plperl.on_init = 'use utf8; use re; package utf8; require "utf8_heavy.pl";'
-	EOF
-
 	einfo "The autovacuum function, which was in contrib, has been moved to the main"
 	einfo "PostgreSQL functions starting with 8.1, and starting with 8.4 is now enabled"
 	einfo "by default. You can disable it in the cluster's:"
diff --git a/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-13.15-r1.ebuild b/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-13.15-r1.ebuild
index 7487827923dda..90f874bd8b389 100644
--- a/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-13.15-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-13.15-r1.ebuild
@@ -406,13 +406,6 @@ pkg_config() {
 	# overridden in the initscript
 	sed '/^#unix_socket_directories/,+1d' -i "${PGDATA%/}"/postgresql.conf
 
-	cat <<- EOF >> "${PGDATA%/}"/postgresql.conf
-		# This is here because of https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518522
-		# On the off-chance that you might need to work with UTF-8 encoded
-		# characters in PL/Perl
-		plperl.on_init = 'use utf8; use re; package utf8; require "utf8_heavy.pl";'
-	EOF
-
 	einfo "The autovacuum function, which was in contrib, has been moved to the main"
 	einfo "PostgreSQL functions starting with 8.1, and starting with 8.4 is now enabled"
 	einfo "by default. You can disable it in the cluster's:"
diff --git a/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-14.11.ebuild b/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-14.11.ebuild
index db34b02f91bd6..7c2f8c1e11fd6 100644
--- a/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-14.11.ebuild
+++ b/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-14.11.ebuild
@@ -406,13 +406,6 @@ pkg_config() {
 	# overridden in the initscript
 	sed '/^#unix_socket_directories/,+1d' -i "${PGDATA%/}"/postgresql.conf
 
-	cat <<- EOF >> "${PGDATA%/}"/postgresql.conf
-		# This is here because of https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518522
-		# On the off-chance that you might need to work with UTF-8 encoded
-		# characters in PL/Perl
-		plperl.on_init = 'use utf8; use re; package utf8; require "utf8_heavy.pl";'
-	EOF
-
 	einfo "The autovacuum function, which was in contrib, has been moved to the main"
 	einfo "PostgreSQL functions starting with 8.1, and starting with 8.4 is now enabled"
 	einfo "by default. You can disable it in the cluster's:"
diff --git a/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-14.12-r1.ebuild b/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-14.12-r1.ebuild
index 5361f9a28c868..e64f40d3a7857 100644
--- a/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-14.12-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-14.12-r1.ebuild
@@ -406,13 +406,6 @@ pkg_config() {
 	# overridden in the initscript
 	sed '/^#unix_socket_directories/,+1d' -i "${PGDATA%/}"/postgresql.conf
 
-	cat <<- EOF >> "${PGDATA%/}"/postgresql.conf
-		# This is here because of https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518522
-		# On the off-chance that you might need to work with UTF-8 encoded
-		# characters in PL/Perl
-		plperl.on_init = 'use utf8; use re; package utf8; require "utf8_heavy.pl";'
-	EOF
-
 	einfo "The autovacuum function, which was in contrib, has been moved to the main"
 	einfo "PostgreSQL functions starting with 8.1, and starting with 8.4 is now enabled"
 	einfo "by default. You can disable it in the cluster's:"
diff --git a/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-15.6.ebuild b/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-15.6.ebuild
index aaea88b1abe6b..179418fe1cd37 100644
--- a/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-15.6.ebuild
+++ b/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-15.6.ebuild
@@ -408,13 +408,6 @@ pkg_config() {
 	# overridden in the initscript
 	sed '/^#unix_socket_directories/,+1d' -i "${PGDATA%/}"/postgresql.conf
 
-	cat <<- EOF >> "${PGDATA%/}"/postgresql.conf
-		# This is here because of https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518522
-		# On the off-chance that you might need to work with UTF-8 encoded
-		# characters in PL/Perl
-		plperl.on_init = 'use utf8; use re; package utf8; require "utf8_heavy.pl";'
-	EOF
-
 	einfo "The autovacuum function, which was in contrib, has been moved to the main"
 	einfo "PostgreSQL functions starting with 8.1, and starting with 8.4 is now enabled"
 	einfo "by default. You can disable it in the cluster's:"
diff --git a/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-15.7-r1.ebuild b/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-15.7-r1.ebuild
index ed5a9d761fec5..cd8e67f96a6d7 100644
--- a/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-15.7-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-15.7-r1.ebuild
@@ -408,13 +408,6 @@ pkg_config() {
 	# overridden in the initscript
 	sed '/^#unix_socket_directories/,+1d' -i "${PGDATA%/}"/postgresql.conf
 
-	cat <<- EOF >> "${PGDATA%/}"/postgresql.conf
-		# This is here because of https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518522
-		# On the off-chance that you might need to work with UTF-8 encoded
-		# characters in PL/Perl
-		plperl.on_init = 'use utf8; use re; package utf8; require "utf8_heavy.pl";'
-	EOF
-
 	einfo "The autovacuum function, which was in contrib, has been moved to the main"
 	einfo "PostgreSQL functions starting with 8.1, and starting with 8.4 is now enabled"
 	einfo "by default. You can disable it in the cluster's:"
diff --git a/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-16.2.ebuild b/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-16.2.ebuild
index 5203958813386..d5542fbc20b13 100644
--- a/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-16.2.ebuild
+++ b/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-16.2.ebuild
@@ -409,13 +409,6 @@ pkg_config() {
 	# overridden in the initscript
 	sed '/^#unix_socket_directories/,+1d' -i "${PGDATA%/}"/postgresql.conf
 
-	cat <<- EOF >> "${PGDATA%/}"/postgresql.conf
-		# This is here because of https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518522
-		# On the off-chance that you might need to work with UTF-8 encoded
-		# characters in PL/Perl
-		plperl.on_init = 'use utf8; use re; package utf8; require "utf8_heavy.pl";'
-	EOF
-
 	einfo "The autovacuum function, which was in contrib, has been moved to the main"
 	einfo "PostgreSQL functions starting with 8.1, and starting with 8.4 is now enabled"
 	einfo "by default. You can disable it in the cluster's:"
diff --git a/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-16.3-r1.ebuild b/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-16.3-r1.ebuild
index 4a487c8112d0a..ce239953cf5b7 100644
--- a/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-16.3-r1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-16.3-r1.ebuild
@@ -409,13 +409,6 @@ pkg_config() {
 	# overridden in the initscript
 	sed '/^#unix_socket_directories/,+1d' -i "${PGDATA%/}"/postgresql.conf
 
-	cat <<- EOF >> "${PGDATA%/}"/postgresql.conf
-		# This is here because of https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518522
-		# On the off-chance that you might need to work with UTF-8 encoded
-		# characters in PL/Perl
-		plperl.on_init = 'use utf8; use re; package utf8; require "utf8_heavy.pl";'
-	EOF
-
 	einfo "The autovacuum function, which was in contrib, has been moved to the main"
 	einfo "PostgreSQL functions starting with 8.1, and starting with 8.4 is now enabled"
 	einfo "by default. You can disable it in the cluster's:"
diff --git a/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-9999.ebuild b/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-9999.ebuild
index 1fa775af92f21..7933efb78c75b 100644
--- a/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-9999.ebuild
+++ b/dev-db/postgresql/postgresql-9999.ebuild
@@ -388,13 +388,6 @@ pkg_config() {
 	# overridden in the initscript
 	sed '/^#unix_socket_directories/,+1d' -i "${PGDATA%/}"/postgresql.conf
 
-	cat <<- EOF >> "${PGDATA%/}"/postgresql.conf
-		# This is here because of https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=518522
-		# On the off-chance that you might need to work with UTF-8 encoded
-		# characters in PL/Perl
-		plperl.on_init = 'use utf8; use re; package utf8; require "utf8_heavy.pl";'
-	EOF
-
 	einfo "The autovacuum function, which was in contrib, has been moved to the main"
 	einfo "PostgreSQL functions starting with 8.1, and starting with 8.4 is now enabled"
 	einfo "by default. You can disable it in the cluster's:"