Re: lo_create(oid, bytea) breaks every extant release of libpq - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: lo_create(oid, bytea) breaks every extant release of libpq
Date
Msg-id 24762.1402586028@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: lo_create(oid, bytea) breaks every extant release of libpq  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: lo_create(oid, bytea) breaks every extant release of libpq  (Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
Re: lo_create(oid, bytea) breaks every extant release of libpq  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Any other votes out there?

> I was also going to suggest lo_create_bytea().  Another similar
> possibility would be lo_from_bytea() -- or, since we have overloading
> (and we can actually use it in this case without breaking libpq), we
> could just have lo_from(oid, bytea).

Andres also mentioned lo_from_bytea(), and I kinda like it too.
I don't like plain lo_from(), as it's not too apparent what it's
supposed to get data "from" --- someone might think the second
parameter was supposed to be a file name a la lo_import(),
for example.
        regards, tom lane



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