Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Well, unless you want to leave *all* the bytea functions in builtins.h
>> there will still be some risk there. I'd actually sooner break calls
>> of byteaout than other things, because in reality every caller of
>> byteaout is going to need to be inspected to see if it's expecting
>> the old-style output format.
> Hmm, good point ... why avoid the breakage then?
Maybe we shouldn't. Okay, back to plan A (separate bytea.h file).
(BTW, so far as I can tell there isn't anything in the backend that
will be broken in that way. pg_dump, however, is a different story...
it knows way too much about pg_trigger.tgargs.)
regards, tom lane