Re: Rust bindings to pgtypes lib

From: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Kaare Rasmussen <kaare(at)jasonic(dot)dk>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Rust bindings to pgtypes lib
Date: 2017-07-07 10:54:33
Message-ID: fe232bba-a048-a0e0-2eb6-8ba3865ceb00@postgresql.org
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> Indeed. I'm quite strongly against exposing / using pgtypeslib in more
> places. If anything it should be phased out. Because that code is

Feel free to come up with a replacement. :)

> definitely not always kept up2date, and it's a lot of work to do so. If
> anything the code should be rewritten to *not* require so much
> duplication, then we could talk.

Agreed. However, it could be argued that the code is not duplication
(anymore) but a separate implementation of these datatypes.

>> I'm not aware of any other language binding for pgtypeslib.
>
> Some people use http://libpqtypes.esilo.com/

Never before saw this. It does not seem to have more in common than the
name, though.

Michael
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