Re: [HACKERS] Text <-> C string

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

"Brendan Jurd" <direvus(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> If we don't want to meddle with xmltype/bytea/VarChar at all, we'll
>> have to revert those changes, and I'll have to seriously scale back
>> the cleanup patch I was about to post.

> Still not sure where we stand on the above.  To cast, or not to cast?

I dunno.  I know there was previously some handwaving about representing
XML values in some more intelligent fashion than a plain text string,
but I have no idea if anyone is likely to do anything about it in the
foreseeable future.

			regards, tom lane