Re: error in compilation!

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PGSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: error in compilation!
Date: 2006-05-28 02:42:52
Message-ID: 200605280242.k4S2gqx23730@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
> > Currently looking through the rest of the patch. I'm wondering
> > about appendStringLiteral: maybe we should kill that entirely
> > in favor of using PQescapeStringConn? It's not nearly bright
> > enough about encoding for instance (and it *will* be used in
> > client-only encodings).
>
> We could make an appendStringLiteralConn, which would do this correctly
> for most of the utility programs. However there's a problem for
> pg_restore: it doesn't necessarily have a PGconn at all. (Consider
> the case of pg_restore producing text output.)
>
> It seems that the alternatives are to export PQescapeStringInternal
> from libpq, or to duplicate its functionality in appendStringLiteral.
> Don't much like either, but perhaps the second is less bad. Any
> opinions?

I like the export idea myself. The less duplicate code the better.

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