From: Eugene E. <sad@bankir.ru>
To: PFC <lists@peufeu.com>
Cc: Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: have you feel anything when you read this ?
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:33:25 +0300
Message-ID: <441FD675.9040308@bankir.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.s6p0sdq2cigqcu@apollo13>
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PFC wrote:
>
>> I wrote:
>>
>>>> the problem is: you'll get this four byte sequence '\000' _instead_
>>>> of NUL-byte anyway.
>>
>>
>> You wrote:
>>
>>> Your client library should take care of escaping and de-escaping.
>>
>>
>> We both agree as you see.
>>
>> Then i am asking:
>> WHY should a client take care of de-escaping ? Why not to get his
>> data unchanged ?
>
>
> I can understand why you say that for something as simple as a
> BYTEA, but if the value to be passed to the client is an ARRAY of
> geometric types or something
Who said "array" ? I just want to restore _one byte_ from bytea storage.
that's all.
> Exporting data from postgres in binary is only useful to C
> programmers
Serious judgment ! Extremely seriuos...
nonetheless C programmers could not do this.
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