Re: [HACKERS] Text <-> C string

[Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>]

Tom Lane wrote:
> "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.
>
> 			
>   

It seems very unlikely to me.

cheers

andrew