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Re: 7.4 Wishlist

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
Cc: David Wheeler <david@wheeler.net>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-12-03T23:15:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general 
Joe Conway writes:

> That is one thing I'd like to take a look at. I think the problem is that
> certain byte-sequence/multibyte-encoding combinations are illegal, so it's not
> as simple an issue as it might first appear.

The bytea type really shouldn't come even close to having to care about
this.

Actually, if you want to improve the ugly bytea literal syntax, implement
the standard BLOB type.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net