Re: Bytea as C string in pg_convert?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
>
>> I have changed it. The thing is, though, that this function not only
>> performs the convert() function but acts as the engine for convert_to()
>> and convert_from(). Those functions do some silent transformations, in
>> one case passing a text Datum as the first argument and in the other
>> case the returning the result as text. If there's a better way to do
>> this I'll be happy to learn, but it seems to me it would involve some
>> duplication - I tried to avoid that where possible.
>>
>
> Hmm. One suggestion would be to have an internal function declared
> as taking and returning "struct varlena *", with a comment saying that
> we depend on text and bytea both being compatible with this. All three
> SQL-visible functions are then thin wrappers around that.
>
>
>

Doesn't strike me as much of an advance, to be honest.

My current top priority is fixing the MSVC build .bat files like Magnus
wants, which will take a bit of time.

cheers

andrew