Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> writes: > > I vote for a new bytea.h file that does not slurp in byteain/byteaout, > > to avoid breaking 3rd party code. miscadmin.h seems the worst solution, > > since it's already included in 210 other files. > > Well, unless you want to leave *all* the bytea functions in builtins.h > there will still be some risk there. I'd actually sooner break calls > of byteaout than other things, because in reality every caller of > byteaout is going to need to be inspected to see if it's expecting > the old-style output format.
Hmm, good point ... why avoid the breakage then? -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers