Because reading a record type requires the decoder to be able to look up oid
to type mapping and types such as hstore have types that are not fixed between
different PostgreSQL servers it was necessary to restructure the pgtype system
so all encoders and decodes take a *ConnInfo that includes oid/name/type
information.
Set having the capability to assign an object of the same type was
inconsistently implemented. Some places it was not implemented at all, some
places it was a shallow copy, some places a deep copy. Given that it doesn't
seem likely to ever be used, and if it is needed it is easy enough to do
outside of the library this code has been removed.
Though this doesn't follow Go naming conventions exactly it makes names more
consistent with PostgreSQL and it is easier to read. For example, TIDOID becomes
TidOid. In addition this is one less breaking change in the move to V3.
Jack Christensen