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Re: 'converts internal representation to "..."' comment is confusing

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Steve Chavez <steve@supabase.io>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2023-05-15T01:36:53Z
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Steve Chavez <steve@supabase.io> writes:
> I found "..." confusing in some comments, so this patch changes it to
> "cstring". Which seems to be the intention after all.

Those comments are Berkeley-era, making them probably a decade older
than the "cstring" pseudotype (invented in b663f3443).  Perhaps what
you suggest is an improvement, but I'm not sure that appealing to
original intent can make the case.

			regards, tom lane

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  1. Change "..." to cstring in old input/output function comments.