On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 10:42 PM, David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> wrote:
> On Dec 17, 2011, at 7:40 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Well, I think that that's exactly the question here: if we do something
>> in core, will it foreclose options for people who want to do add-ons?
>
> Why would it? They would just have to use a different name.
Yeah, exactly. Or for that matter, the same name in a different
schema. And as for the question of text vs. binary, that's going to
be two separate data types whether it gets done in core or elsewhere.
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