Re: lo_create(oid, bytea) breaks every extant release of libpq

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: lo_create(oid, bytea) breaks every extant release of libpq
Date: 2014-06-12 14:50:07
Message-ID: 20140612145007.GE24710@alap3.anarazel.de
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On 2014-06-12 10:48:01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> writes:
> >> lo_new() or lo_make()? An earlier draft of the patch that added
> >> lo_create(oid, bytea) had a similar function named make_lo().
>
> It appears that lo_make() has a small plurality, but before we lock
> that name in, there was one other idea that occurred to me: the
> underlying C function is currently named lo_create_bytea(), and
> that seems like not an awful choice for the SQL name either.
>
> Any other votes out there?

I prefer lo_create_bytea() or even lo_create_from_bytea(),
lo_from_bytea().

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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