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Re: [PATCH 4/4] Add tests to dblink covering use of COPY TO FUNCTION

Daniel Farina <drfarina@acm.org>

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From: Daniel Farina <drfarina@acm.org>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@krosing.net>, Daniel Farina <dfarina@truviso.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-12-30T05:56:04Z
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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.

fdr