Re: PQescapeBytea on Win32

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>, Key88 SF <key88sf(at)hotmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PQescapeBytea on Win32
Date: 2003-03-24 16:28:15
Message-ID: 200303241628.h2OGSGq06034@candle.pha.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > The problem with that is the new versions are still going to reference
> > PQfreeNotify, and then we still can't remove it. I think we need the
> > macro for PQfreeNotify pointing to PQfreemem, but keep the PQfreeNotify
> > function around for a release or two, then remove it, and remove all
> > documentation about it in 7.4.
>
> Too complicated. Just implement PQfreemem independently and tell people
> to use it. Please don't remove documentation just because a feature is
> deprecated. How are people supposed to do the conversion if they can't
> find information about what they are supposed to convert from?

OK, I will keep the docs around and point to PGfreemem.

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