From:
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To:
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc:
Joe Conway <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com>,
Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, 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 22:58:21
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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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Tom Lane writes:
> > I agree that it would be better to *not* allow implicit coercions. Given
> > that, any preferences on function names? Are text_to_bytea() and
> > bytea_to_text() too ugly?
>
> They're pretty ugly, but more importantly they're only suitable if we
> have exactly one conversion function each way. If we have two, what
> will we call the second one?
Why not just stick these things into encode() and name them
"my-cool-encoding" or whatever. There is no truly natural conversion
between text and bytea, so encode/decode seem like the proper place.
--
Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
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