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

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Bytea/Base64 encoders for libpq - interested?
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Msg-id 200109040214.f842EoT11100@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Bytea/Base64 encoders for libpq - interested?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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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?

Agreed.

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