RE: input/output functions have been changed ?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
> 
> "Hiroshi Inoue" <Inoue@tpf.co.jp> writes:
> > I just want to confirm if input/output functions have 
> > been changed.
> 
> > select int4out(1);
> >    int4out
> > -----------
> >   136475032
> > (1 row)
> 
> Sure, you expected something nicer?  You're seeing the numeric
> representation of a C string pointer.
> 
> Actually, checking 6.5, I see that int4out --- alone of all the *out
> functions --- used to be declared in pg_proc to return type 'name'.

Oops,int4out() alone. 
I don't complain about this change.
It seems not good for clients to call input/output functions directly.

There remains a pair of int4out() calls in interfaces/odbc/info.c.
I don't know why those calls have been needed but this change
would return wrong result.
Probably we should remove the calls from info.c completely.

Regards. 

Hiroshi Inoue
Inoue@tpf.co.jp