On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not being responsible from the maintenance of any PostgreSQL drivers > whatsoever, I don't have a strong feeling about which of these is the > case, and I'd like us to hear from the people who do.
I'm just gonna come right out and say that GUC-based solutions are not the way -- bytea encoding change is a perfect example of that. IMSNHO, there's only two plausible paths ahead: 1) document the binary formats and continue with 'go at your own risk' 2) full auto-negotiation for all wire formats (text and binary). merlin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers