Re: PQescapeBytea on Win32

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Doesn't this duplicate a function that we already invented for PQnotify
> >> structs?
> 
> > What do you recommend?  Do we depricate PQfreeNotify?
> 
> I dunno.  In hindsight it was shortsightedly named.  But I don't suppose
> we want to tell people to use "PQfreeNotify" to free the result of
> PQescapeBytea ... so deprecation seems to be the order of the day.
> 
> Do we really want "PQfreemem" either?  Maybe it should be "PQfree"?

I am a little concerned that PQfree would be confused with PQclear.

Could we have PQfreeNotify() be a macro to PQfreemem in 7.4?

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