Re: plperl vs. bytea

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> It's not. If we really want to tackle this root and branch without
> upsetting legacy code, I think we'd need to have a way of marking
> data items as binary in the grammar, e.g.
>
>   create function myfunc(myarg binary bytea) returns binary bytea
> language plperl as $$ ...$$;

This ought to be a property of data type plus language, not a property 
of a function.

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Peter Eisentraut
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