On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Tom Lane<t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > > I'll point out though that having probin declared bytea would surely > be antithetical to any attempt to treat shlib filenames in an > encoding-aware fashion. Declaring it that way implies that it is > *not* storing a character string that has any particular encoding.
Well that's kind of the point. Unix filesystems traditionally prohibit '/' and '\0' but otherwise allowing any series of bytes without requiring any particular encoding. If we used bytea to store filesystem paths then you could specify any arbitrary series of bytes without worrying that the server will re-encode it differently. -- greg http://mit.edu/~gsstark/resume.pdf -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
