| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Vladimir Kokovic <kokovic(dot)vladimir(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Empty bytea format - 9.1devel pg_dump and psql |
| Date: | 2010-10-18 20:10:43 |
| Message-ID: | 24988.1287432643@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Vladimir Kokovic <kokovic(dot)vladimir(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I think that empty bytea shoukd be like in 8.4, without \\x !
We could do that, but it seems completely cosmetic. The real problem
here is that you've got client-side code that doesn't understand the
hex-based format. It's going to break as soon as it sees a non-empty
bytea, so what's the use of trying to make the empty-string case
backwards compatible? It's probably better you find out about the
incompatibility sooner, so you can get on with fixing the real problem.
regards, tom lane
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