Hannu Krosing wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 05:19, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Hannu Krosing wrote:
> > > > > The alternative would be yet another system table which would allow us
> > > > > to support unlimited number of to/from converters for different wire
> > > > > protocols, but it will definitely be easier to start with
> > > > > typreceive/typsend.
> > > >
> > > > We can always re-add the columns them.
> > >
> > > But would it not be nice if we could add uniform binary protocol without
> > > requiring initdb ?
> >
> > Seems impossible that would ever happen without an initdb.
>
> Why?
It is inconceivable we would add such a feature without a major release,
and every major release requires an initdb.
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