Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> We would want the timeline history file contents label changed from
> BYTEA to TEXT in the docs changed for all supported versions, add a C
> comment to all backbranches that BYTEA is the same as TEXT protocol
> fields, and change the C code to return TEXT IN PG 14. Is that what
> people want?
I still think there is no need to touch back branches. What you
propose here is more likely to confuse people than help them.
Having the documentation disagree with the code about how the
field is labeled is not good either.
Furthermore, it absolutely does not make sense to say (or imply)
that the unknown-encoding business applies to all text fields.
There are a very small number of fields where we should say that.
regards, tom lane
