On 2020-Mar-27, Tom Lane wrote:
> That being the case, I'd think a better design principle is "make your
> new code look like the code around it", which would tend to weigh against
> introducing StringInfo uses into pgbench when there's none there now and
> a bunch of PQExpBuffer instead. So I can't help thinking the advice
> you're being given here is suspect.
+1 for keeping it PQExpBuffer-only, until such a time when you need a
StringInfo feature that's not in PQExpBuffer -- and even at that point,
I think you'd switch just that one thing to StringInfo, not the whole
program.
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