| From: | Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Barry Lind <barry(at)xythos(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Question about todo item |
| Date: | 2001-08-05 05:48:44 |
| Message-ID: | 3B6CDE3C.D09BCE30@tm.ee |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > > I agree we should have it, but I thought the problem was that we
> > > couldn't come up with an API that worked.
> >
> > AFAIR, no one's really tried yet. I do not recall any proposals
> > getting shot down ...
>
> I keep bugging Jan about it, since pre-7.1 and no one has come up with
> an idea. I think the lack of any proposal or anyone even mentioning
> they liked the idea made me give up, especially when uuencode at least
> gave us binary in/out.
Can anyone recall, why was uuencode chosen over base64 encoding ?
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Hannu
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