Re: Binary in/out for aclitem

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>> On 02/22/2011 05:04 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> I think this one has got far less use-case than the other, and I don't
>>> want to expose the internal representation of ACLITEM to the world.
>
>> The sendv for enums sends the label, and ISTR there are some others that
>> send the text representation also. Would that be better?
>
> It'd be more future-proof than this patch, but I'm still unconvinced
> about the use-case.

Do we want to intentionally make binary format a second-class citizen?

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