Re: [PATCHES] libpq type system 0.9a

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Andrew Chernow <ac(at)esilo(dot)com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] libpq type system 0.9a
Date: 2008-04-08 22:07:56
Message-ID: 20080408220756.GR9062@alvh.no-ip.org
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

> > How tight is the link to libpq? Could it exist as a seperate library:
> > libpqbin or something? Still in core, just only used by the people who
> > want it.
>
> The idea of pgfoundry was that it would be an independent library and
> could be used by people who need it.

I don't think phasing it out to pgfoundry is a good idea, because it has
some dependency on the OIDs of datatypes. Besides, it is likely that it
could be used by ecpg instead of it having its own PGTYPES stuff.

--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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