Re: Binary in/out for aclitem

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Wednesday 23 February 2011 22:30:04
> Radosław Smogura <rsmogura@softperience.eu> writes:
> > Here is extended version, has version field (N_ACL_RIGHTS*2) and reserved
> > mask, as well definition is more general then def of PGSQL. In any way it
> > require that rights mades bit array.
> 
> You're going in quite the wrong direction here.  The consensus as I
> understood it was that we should just use the text representation in
> binary mode too, rather than inventing a separate representation that's
> going to put a whole new set of constraints on what can happen to the
> internal representation.  The proposal you have here has no redeeming
> social value whatever, because nobody cares about the I/O efficiency
> for aclitem (and even if anyone did, you've made no case that this would
> actually be more efficient to use on the client side).
> 
>             regards, tom lane

Look at it. Pass call to in/out.

Regards,
Radek