Re: bytea vs. pg_dump

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > I vote for a new bytea.h file that does not slurp in byteain/byteaout,
> > to avoid breaking 3rd party code.  miscadmin.h seems the worst solution,
> > since it's already included in 210 other files.
> 
> Well, unless you want to leave *all* the bytea functions in builtins.h
> there will still be some risk there.  I'd actually sooner break calls
> of byteaout than other things, because in reality every caller of
> byteaout is going to need to be inspected to see if it's expecting
> the old-style output format.

Hmm, good point ... why avoid the breakage then?

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