| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> |
| Subject: | Re: bytea vs. pg_dump |
| Date: | 2009-08-04 01:14:38 |
| Message-ID: | 20090804011438.GN19615@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > I vote for a new bytea.h file that does not slurp in byteain/byteaout,
> > to avoid breaking 3rd party code. miscadmin.h seems the worst solution,
> > since it's already included in 210 other files.
>
> Well, unless you want to leave *all* the bytea functions in builtins.h
> there will still be some risk there. I'd actually sooner break calls
> of byteaout than other things, because in reality every caller of
> byteaout is going to need to be inspected to see if it's expecting
> the old-style output format.
Hmm, good point ... why avoid the breakage then?
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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