Re: PQescapeBytea on Win32

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > > Tom Lane wrote:
> > >> Doesn't this duplicate a function that we already invented for PQnotify
> > >> structs?
> >
> > > What do you recommend? Do we depricate PQfreeNotify?
> >
> > I dunno. In hindsight it was shortsightedly named. But I don't suppose
> > we want to tell people to use "PQfreeNotify" to free the result of
> > PQescapeBytea ... so deprecation seems to be the order of the day.
> >
> > Do we really want "PQfreemem" either? Maybe it should be "PQfree"?
>
> I am a little concerned that PQfree would be confused with PQclear.
>
> Could we have PQfreeNotify() be a macro to PQfreemem in 7.4?

The only place I see PQfreeNotify() used in our code is libpgtcl, aside
from libpq, and a macro would work fine.

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