Re: [PATCHES] libpq type system 0.9a

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I know there has been lots of versions and technical feedback related to
> this proposed feature. However, I have talked to Tom and neither of us
> see sufficient user request for this capability to add this code into
> the core server. I recommend you place it on pgfoundry and see if you
> can get a sufficient user-base there. If you need something exposed by
> libpq that is not there already, please let us know.
>
> One interesting idea would be if ecpg could use this functionality in
> place of its own type-specific functions --- if that were the case, we
> could reconsider adding this to core because it would be required by
> ecpg.
>
> Sorry for the bad news. I think we all hoped that enough interest would
> be generated for this to be accepted.
>
>

I think you should conduct a wider survey before you make that decision.
In particular, I'd like to hear from driver writers like Greg Sabino
Mullane and Jeff Davis, as well as regular libpq users.

cheers

andrew