Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org> writes:
> That is one possibility, but I think the proposal is to expose the
> *support* for the data types to client-side apps.
Ah, I see --- more or less make all of utils/adt/ available to be
linked into clients.
> That is a Good Idea in principle. In practice, ...
Yeah, it'd be a huge amount of work. For starters, all that code
relies on the backend environment for error handling and memory
management...
regards, tom lane