On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 05:10:30PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes: > > Patch attached. I would like to backpatch this to all supported > > versions so we are consistent and people don't think different PG > > versions use different return values for this. Is that safe? Looking > > at the uses of this in our code, it seems so. We aren't doing BYTEA > > escaping or TEXT encoding conversion in any of these cases. > > I do not think a back-patch is a good idea. Yeah, it probably > won't break anything, but by the same token it won't fix anything.
OK, I can instead put in a C comment that it is really TEXT like the other fields, but update the docs in all branches. Does that work for everyone? -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EnterpriseDB https://enterprisedb.com The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness, Bruce Lee
