Re: Bytea string operator support - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Bytea string operator support
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0109140156170.680-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: Bytea string operator support  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Bytea string operator support  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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Bruce Momjian writes:

> I agree this is type pollution into libpq but I don't see another option
> except having the user code this stuff into their application.  Maybe we
> need some type-handling library in the future were we can put all this
> stuff.  Maybe we can add this to libpq now and create a separate library
> when we need one.

We probably do.  After all, the strings you get are not really the most
optimal form, especially for numbers, dates, and booleans.  Looks at the
JDBC spec, they have getXXX for each data type.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter


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