Re: [HACKERS] Text <-> C string

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Brendan Jurd" <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Text <-> C string
Date: 2008-04-16 15:16:25
Message-ID: 8456.1208358985@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Brendan Jurd" <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> If we don't want to meddle with xmltype/bytea/VarChar at all, we'll
>> have to revert those changes, and I'll have to seriously scale back
>> the cleanup patch I was about to post.

> Still not sure where we stand on the above. To cast, or not to cast?

I dunno. I know there was previously some handwaving about representing
XML values in some more intelligent fashion than a plain text string,
but I have no idea if anyone is likely to do anything about it in the
foreseeable future.

regards, tom lane

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