Re: PQescapeBytea on Win32 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: PQescapeBytea on Win32
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Msg-id 200303241628.h2OGSGq06034@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: PQescapeBytea on Win32  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
> 
> > The problem with that is the new versions are still going to reference
> > PQfreeNotify, and then we still can't remove it. I think we need the
> > macro for PQfreeNotify pointing to PQfreemem, but keep the PQfreeNotify
> > function around for a release or two, then remove it, and remove all
> > documentation about it in 7.4.
> 
> Too complicated.  Just implement PQfreemem independently and tell people
> to use it.  Please don't remove documentation just because a feature is
> deprecated.  How are people supposed to do the conversion if they can't
> find information about what they are supposed to convert from?

OK, I will keep the docs around and point to PGfreemem.

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