Stephan Szabo wrote:
What would you expect it to do given a single result format argument?
If you want to propose a new function (set of functions) that have
different behavior, make a coherent proposal.
> Statements like it should
> do X because I want it to aren't coherent proposals.
AFAIK, they convert each value before put it to a result set.
I propose to do the following convertion to the textual-form for bytea
values:
X->X where X is byte [0..255]
Okay, now pass that to strcmp or a %s format. AFAIK, the "textual-form" of
values is meant to be a c-string. "ab\0cd\0" is not a c-string containing
ab\0cd, it's a c-string containing ab.
WHY strcmp ?! do you really think the user is a fool ?
if the user declared something "binary", he obviously knows what he has
done.
WHY c-string ? the user only wants to get PGresult structure.
Since this structure provides a length of each value, you have no need
in c-string. Why do think the user needs it ?
"textual-form" is just a name of actually existent convertion rule.
i am not trying to find out a philosophy here.
I think I don't exactly agree with this description, but I'm unclear
exactly what you're saying. Are you saying that textual-form is the
useful representation, or are you saying that textual-form is the
representation and it is useful?
the actual representasion of most types is pretty useful.
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