Re: PQescapeBytea on Win32

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>, Key88 SF <key88sf(at)hotmail(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PQescapeBytea on Win32
Date: 2003-03-24 08:45:55
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0303230040210.2352-100000@peter.localdomain
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Bruce Momjian writes:

> The problem with that is the new versions are still going to reference
> PQfreeNotify, and then we still can't remove it. I think we need the
> macro for PQfreeNotify pointing to PQfreemem, but keep the PQfreeNotify
> function around for a release or two, then remove it, and remove all
> documentation about it in 7.4.

Too complicated. Just implement PQfreemem independently and tell people
to use it. Please don't remove documentation just because a feature is
deprecated. How are people supposed to do the conversion if they can't
find information about what they are supposed to convert from?

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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