Re: Binary in/out for aclitem

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Radosław Smogura <rsmogura(at)softperience(dot)eu>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Binary in/out for aclitem
Date: 2011-02-23 01:12:38
Message-ID: AANLkTimH_-AxRGfEfF69Kk0ZMcCDG_jJ9xgiDajajdS-@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>> On 02/22/2011 05:04 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I think this one has got far less use-case than the other, and I don't
>>> want to expose the internal representation of ACLITEM to the world.
>
>> The sendv for enums sends the label, and ISTR there are some others that
>> send the text representation also. Would that be better?
>
> It'd be more future-proof than this patch, but I'm still unconvinced
> about the use-case.

Do we want to intentionally make binary format a second-class citizen?

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Robert Haas
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