From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <kevin.grittner@wicourts.gov>
Cc: Thom Brown <thom@linux.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Couple document fixes
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:36:21 -0300
Message-ID: <1315247626-sup-3192@alvh.no-ip.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201109051821.p85ILkQ01814@momjian.us>
References: <201109051821.p85ILkQ01814@momjian.us>
Excerpts from Bruce Momjian's message of lun sep 05 15:21:46 -0300 2011:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > Discussed the idea a bit on IM with Bruce, but couldn't find any really
> > good alternative. Idea floated so far:
> >
> > * byte (seems pretty decent to me)
> > * octet (though maybe people would expect it'd output as a number)
> > * char1 (looks ugly, but then we have int4 and so on)
> > * achar (this one is just plain weird)
> >
> > None seems great. Thoughts?
>
> Any new ideas on how to document our "char" data type?
I think part of the problem is that this only seems to bother patch
developers, and only until they become aware of the issue. After that,
it just becomes a known gotcha that's easy to work around. Thus,
there's not much interest in spending a lot of time fixing it.
--
Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
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