| From: | "Eugene E(dot)" <sad(at)bankir(dot)ru> |
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| To: | PFC <lists(at)peufeu(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Achilleus Mantzios <achill(at)matrix(dot)gatewaynet(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: have you feel anything when you read this ? |
| Date: | 2006-03-21 10:33:25 |
| Message-ID: | 441FD675.9040308@bankir.ru |
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PFC wrote:
>
>> I wrote:
>>
>>>> the problem is: you'll get this four byte sequence '\000' _instead_
>>>> of NUL-byte anyway.
>>
>>
>> You wrote:
>>
>>> Your client library should take care of escaping and de-escaping.
>>
>>
>> We both agree as you see.
>>
>> Then i am asking:
>> WHY should a client take care of de-escaping ? Why not to get his
>> data unchanged ?
>
>
> I can understand why you say that for something as simple as a
> BYTEA, but if the value to be passed to the client is an ARRAY of
> geometric types or something
Who said "array" ? I just want to restore _one byte_ from bytea storage.
that's all.
> Exporting data from postgres in binary is only useful to C
> programmers
Serious judgment ! Extremely seriuos...
nonetheless C programmers could not do this.
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