Re: Bytea/Base64 encoders for libpq - interested?

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
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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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