Tom Lane writes:
> > I agree that it would be better to *not* allow implicit coercions. Given
> > that, any preferences on function names? Are text_to_bytea() and
> > bytea_to_text() too ugly?
>
> They're pretty ugly, but more importantly they're only suitable if we
> have exactly one conversion function each way. If we have two, what
> will we call the second one?
Why not just stick these things into encode() and name them
"my-cool-encoding" or whatever. There is no truly natural conversion
between text and bytea, so encode/decode seem like the proper place.
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