* Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> [010904 12:01]:
> They're pretty ugly, but more importantly they're only suitable if we
> have exactly one conversion function each way. If we have two, what
> will we call the second one?
>
> I think it's okay to let the argument type be implicit in the function
> argument list. Something like text_escaped(bytea) and text_direct(bytea)
> (with inverses bytea_escaped(text) and bytea_direct(text)) might do.
> I'm not totally happy with "direct" to suggest minimum escaping, though.
> Better ideas anyone?
Cooked vs raw?
LER
>
> regards, tom lane
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