RE: input/output functions have been changed ?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
>
> "Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
> > I just want to confirm if input/output functions have
> > been changed.
>
> > select int4out(1);
> > int4out
> > -----------
> > 136475032
> > (1 row)
>
> Sure, you expected something nicer? You're seeing the numeric
> representation of a C string pointer.
>
> Actually, checking 6.5, I see that int4out --- alone of all the *out
> functions --- used to be declared in pg_proc to return type 'name'.

Oops,int4out() alone.
I don't complain about this change.
It seems not good for clients to call input/output functions directly.

There remains a pair of int4out() calls in interfaces/odbc/info.c.
I don't know why those calls have been needed but this change
would return wrong result.
Probably we should remove the calls from info.c completely.

Regards.

Hiroshi Inoue
Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp