Re: [PATCHES] libpq type system 0.9a

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Andrew Chernow <ac(at)esilo(dot)com>, Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] libpq type system 0.9a
Date: 2008-04-08 17:12:28
Message-ID: 200804081712.m38HCSn19486@momjian.us
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I know there has been lots of versions and technical feedback related to
> > this proposed feature. However, I have talked to Tom and neither of us
> > see sufficient user request for this capability to add this code into
> > the core server. I recommend you place it on pgfoundry and see if you
> > can get a sufficient user-base there. If you need something exposed by
> > libpq that is not there already, please let us know.
> >
> > One interesting idea would be if ecpg could use this functionality in
> > place of its own type-specific functions --- if that were the case, we
> > could reconsider adding this to core because it would be required by
> > ecpg.
> >
> > Sorry for the bad news. I think we all hoped that enough interest would
> > be generated for this to be accepted.
> >
> >
>
> I think you should conduct a wider survey before you make that decision.
> In particular, I'd like to hear from driver writers like Greg Sabino
> Mullane and Jeff Davis, as well as regular libpq users.

Well, they are welcome to chime in but the patch has been out the for a
while and they haven't spoken yet. We have to base our decisions on
people who do chime in.

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