On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Daniel Farina <drfarina@acm.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:46 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sure. If you think you can make it work using bytea, that seems
>> clearly better than using an internal type, all things being equal.
>
> I think both are perfectly viable and can be supported simultaneously,
> actually...I simply like INTERNAL because the mechanism and passed
> data structure for when you *do* want to write a C function is just
> really crisp and simple, and is not going to be a source of overhead.
OK. I think we'll have to see the proposed patch before we can really
make a final judgement on this, but hopefully I've at least given you
enough feedback/food for thought to move this forward in a meaningful
way...
...Robert
