Re: bytea vs. pg_dump

From: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Subject: Re: bytea vs. pg_dump
Date: 2009-08-04 00:24:35
Message-ID: 407d949e0908031724x365b2fc5v64aab1f880261ec6@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> One other stylistic gripe: I don't much like inserting a GUC variable
> definition into builtins.h --- that file has traditionally only
> contained function extern declarations.  The best alternative I can
> think of is to move the bytea-related stuff into a new include file
> include/utils/bytea.h.  Has anyone got an objection or a better idea?

The other guc that controls default i/o formats for a data type is
DateStyle. I can't say I expected to find that in miscadmin.h though.
Perhaps move both of them into a utils/adt.h or something like that?

--
greg
http://mit.edu/~gsstark/resume.pdf

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