From:
Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To:
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc:
Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz>,
Joerg Hessdoerfer <Joerg(dot)Hessdoerfer(at)sea-gmbh(dot)com>,
pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject:
Re: Bytea/Base64 encoders for libpq - interested?
Date:
2001-09-04 02:14:50
Message-ID:
200109040214.f842EoT11100@candle.pha.pa.us (view raw or flat )
Thread:
2001-08-28 09:07:32 from Joerg Hessdoerfer <Joerg(dot)Hessdoerfer(at)sea-gmbh(dot)com>
2001-08-28 09:55:28 from Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz>
2001-08-29 01:58:12 from Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my>
2001-08-29 02:22:22 from Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh(at)pop(dot)jaring(dot)my>
2001-09-04 00:16:52 from Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
2001-09-04 00:48:22 from Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
2001-09-04 02:14:50 from Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
2001-09-04 03:25:29 from "Joe Conway" <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com>
2001-09-04 04:12:35 from Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
2001-09-04 04:55:23 from "Joe Conway" <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com>
2001-09-04 13:50:49 from Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
2001-09-04 15:46:44 from "Joe Conway" <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com>
2001-09-04 16:01:11 from Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
2001-09-04 17:13:00 from Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>
2001-09-04 22:58:21 from Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
2001-09-04 22:56:06 from Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
2001-09-04 23:09:17 from "Joe Conway" <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com>
2001-09-05 20:34:06 from "Joe Conway" <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com>
2001-09-06 17:39:49 from Marko Kreen <marko(at)l-t(dot)ee>
2001-09-06 17:43:53 from Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
2001-09-06 18:08:26 from "Joe Conway" <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com>
2001-09-07 06:47:21 from "Joe Conway" <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com>
2001-09-04 16:44:49 from Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
2001-09-04 17:33:26 from Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
2001-09-04 17:34:37 from Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
2001-09-04 04:45:05 from Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
2001-09-04 10:25:48 from Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
2001-09-04 15:37:35 from "Joe Conway" <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com>
2001-09-04 08:11:45 from Karel Zak <zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz>
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> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Where did we leave this?
>
> I don't think adding a datatype just to provide base64 encoding is
> a wise approach. The overhead of a new datatype (in the sense of
> providing operators/functions for it) will be much more than the
> benefit. I think providing encode/decode functions is sufficient...
> and we have those already, don't we?
Agreed.
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