Is there a good reason why PL languages do not support cstring type arguments and return values ?

From: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Is there a good reason why PL languages do not support cstring type arguments and return values ?
Date: 2012-10-10 12:33:08
Message-ID: 50756B04.8040600@2ndQuadrant.com
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Is the lack of support of cstring in PLs just laziness/ovelook or is
there a good
reason why PL languages do not support cstring type arguments and return
values ?

I'm currently adding this to pl/pythonu with an aim to prototype type io
functions for a new type.

If it is just some security concern this could be alleviated by only
allowing it in the untrusted languages.

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Hannu Krosing

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