On 12/12/2010 10:43 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
Tim Bunce seemed to think that this particular problem might be solvable in a completely transparent way, by having byteas convert into Perl objects that have a hook for producing a backwards-compatible text translation. Have you looked into that idea?
No. If you're referring to this sentence, which was referring to arrays, not to byteas:
It's possible a blessed ref with string overloading would avoid backwards compatibility issues.
then it won't work (or at least it would be far more complex than what I've done, and I can't see how it would work) in the case of a bytea, since a bytea becomes a scalar, not a ref, and you can only bless refs.
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