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From: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
To: Vik Fearing <vik@postgresfriends.org>
Cc: Kirk Wolak <wolakk@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Eric Radman <ericshane@eradman.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add function to_oct
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 08:42:08 -0700
Message-ID: <20230815154208.GC2296544@nathanxps13> (raw)
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On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 07:58:17AM +0200, Vik Fearing wrote:
> On 8/15/23 06:11, Nathan Bossart wrote:
>> If there are no objections, I'd like to commit this patch soon.
> 
> I just took a look at this (and the rest of the thread).  I am a little bit
> disappointed that we don't have a generic base conversion function, but even
> if we did I think these specialized functions would still be useful.
> 
> No objection from me.

Thanks for taking a look.  I don't mean for this to preclude a generic base
conversion function that would supersede the functions added by this patch.
However, I didn't want to hold up $SUBJECT because of something that may or
may not happen after lots of discussion.  If it does happen within the v17
development cycle, we could probably just remove to_oct/binary.

-- 
Nathan Bossart
Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com





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