On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 12:40:37PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes: > > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:33:24AM +0300, Dmitriy Igrishin wrote: > >> Could you tell me please an objective reason why PQunescapeBytea() > >> returns unsigned char* rather than just char* ? > >> I am asking because a bit confused. How this intermixes with LO's API, > >> which based on signed chars (although as we all know large object - > >> is a just bytea splitted on chunks)? > >> And also PQgetvalue() returns char* rather than unsigned char*. > > > Can someone answer this? Are we consistent here? > > We're not, particularly, but changing any of this seems likely to > create more pain than it removes.
OK, thanks. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
