Re: Bytea/Base64 encoders for libpq - interested? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Bytea/Base64 encoders for libpq - interested?
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Msg-id 15728.999564502@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Bytea/Base64 encoders for libpq - interested?  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Bytea/Base64 encoders for libpq - interested?  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Re: Bytea/Base64 encoders for libpq - interested?  (Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>)
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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Where did we leave this?

I don't think adding a datatype just to provide base64 encoding is
a wise approach.  The overhead of a new datatype (in the sense of
providing operators/functions for it) will be much more than the
benefit.  I think providing encode/decode functions is sufficient...
and we have those already, don't we?
        regards, tom lane


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