Re: [HACKERS] Question about todo item

[Hannu Krosing]

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > I agree we should have it, but I thought the problem was that we
> > > couldn't come up with an API that worked.
> >
> > AFAIR, no one's really tried yet.  I do not recall any proposals
> > getting shot down ...
> 
> I keep bugging Jan about it, since pre-7.1 and no one has come up with
> an idea.  I think the lack of any proposal or anyone even mentioning
> they liked the idea made me give up, especially when uuencode at least
> gave us binary in/out.

Can anyone recall, why was uuencode chosen over base64 encoding ?

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Hannu

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