Re: [HACKERS] bytea_output output of base64 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [HACKERS] bytea_output output of base64
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Msg-id 6762.1487884138@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to [HACKERS] bytea_output output of base64  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] bytea_output output of base64
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Is there a reason we don't support base64 as a bytea_output output
> option, except that no one has implemented it?

How about "we already have one too many bytea output formats"?
I don't think forcing code to try to support still another one
is a great thing ... especially not if it couldn't be reliably
distinguished from the hex format.
        regards, tom lane



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