Re: [PATCH] Add function to_oct

From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Vik Fearing <vik(at)postgresfriends(dot)org>
Cc: Kirk Wolak <wolakk(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Eric Radman <ericshane(at)eradman(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add function to_oct
Date: 2023-08-15 15:42:08
Message-ID: 20230815154208.GC2296544@nathanxps13
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On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 07:58:17AM +0200, Vik Fearing wrote:
> On 8/15/23 06:11, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>> If there are no objections, I'd like to commit this patch soon.
>
> I just took a look at this (and the rest of the thread). I am a little bit
> disappointed that we don't have a generic base conversion function, but even
> if we did I think these specialized functions would still be useful.
>
> No objection from me.

Thanks for taking a look. I don't mean for this to preclude a generic base
conversion function that would supersede the functions added by this patch.
However, I didn't want to hold up $SUBJECT because of something that may or
may not happen after lots of discussion. If it does happen within the v17
development cycle, we could probably just remove to_oct/binary.

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Nathan Bossart
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