On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 03:42, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I think #2 might be a nice thing to have, but I'm not sure what it has
>>> to do with extensions.
>>
>> Agreed. There might be some use for #4 in connection with extensions,
>> but I don't see that #2 is related.
>>
>> BTW, it appears to me that pg_read_file expects server encoding not
>> client encoding. Minor detail only, but let's be clear what it is
>> we're talking about.
EXTENSION will use #2 with convert_from() for $4 like this:
Datum sql = replace( convert_from(pg_read_binary_file($path), $encoding), '@extschema@',
$schema);SPI_exec(TextDatumGetCString(sql));
I think it is a more flexible solution than adding 'encoding'
parameter to pg_read_file().
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Itagaki Takahiro