> Peter's suggestion appears to be a natural step towards the goal of
> being able to provide a defined interface that could be used for
> extensions. The concern that the _external_ format might change seems
> counter to the effort of providing a stable platform for extending
> PostgreSQL. If t
I am tempted to replace all attempts to build text data on your own (with
VARDATA, VARHDRSZ, etc.) with proper calls to textin/textout in all places
that can't claim to be truly internal (especially all contrib). The
background is that the internal format might change sometime when mo
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am tempted to replace all attempts to build text data on your own (with
> VARDATA, VARHDRSZ, etc.) with proper calls to textin/textout in all places
> that can't claim to be truly internal (especially all contrib).
Other than contrib, what places d
