On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 10:36 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
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> So the problem is that extensions only _need_ to use that API on
> Windows, so many initially don't, or that the API is too limited?
The inconvenience with that API is that it's only returning c strings,
so you gave to convert it back to the original datatype. That's
probably why most of the extensions simply read from the original
exposed variable rather than using the API, because they're usually
written on Linux or similar, not because they want to mess up the
stored value.