Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Jeff Davis wrote:
>> So, I think ASCII is the natural choice here.
> It's not worth hanging up this facility over this issue, ISTM. If we
> want something more that ASCII then a base64 or hex encoded string could
> possibly meet the need in the first instance.
Yeah, that would serve people who want to push either binary or
non-ASCII data through the pipe. It would leave all risks of encoding
problems on the user's head, though.
regards, tom lane
