Re: lo_create(oid, bytea) breaks every extant release of libpq

Tom Lane wrote:
> Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> writes:
> >> lo_new() or lo_make()? An earlier draft of the patch that added
> >> lo_create(oid, bytea) had a similar function named make_lo().
>
> It appears that lo_make() has a small plurality, but before we lock
> that name in, there was one other idea that occurred to me: the
> underlying C function is currently named lo_create_bytea(), and
> that seems like not an awful choice for the SQL name either.
>
> Any other votes out there?

I was also going to suggest lo_create_bytea(). Another similar
possibility would be lo_from_bytea() -- or, since we have overloading
(and we can actually use it in this case without breaking libpq), we
could just have lo_from(oid, bytea).

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