Re: unsigned and signed chars in libpq API

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 12:40:37PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:33:24AM +0300, Dmitriy Igrishin wrote:
> >> Could you tell me please an objective reason why PQunescapeBytea()
> >> returns unsigned char* rather than just char* ?
> >> I am asking because a bit confused. How this intermixes with LO's API,
> >> which based on signed chars (although as we all know large object -
> >> is a just bytea splitted on chunks)?
> >> And also PQgetvalue() returns char* rather than unsigned char*.
>
> > Can someone answer this? Are we consistent here?
>
> We're not, particularly, but changing any of this seems likely to
> create more pain than it removes.

OK, thanks.

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