| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "Warren W(dot) Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg(at)cogeco(dot)ca> |
| Cc: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, PostgreSQL mailing list <pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Wish List: Client access to NUMERIC/DECIMAL type functions |
| Date: | 2002-07-12 15:26:48 |
| Message-ID: | 10003.1026487608@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg(at)cogeco(dot)ca> writes:
> If I use the binary interface, I now have to convert your "decimal" number
> to someone else's format, so I can do something with it.
> Oracle or INFORMIX OTOH, provide the user access to
> routines to manipulate their builtin data types.
We don't encourage people to use the binary interface at all, because we
don't want to get involved with handling cross-platform representational
differences (not to mention version-to-version changes in internal
representation). Therefore there's no reason to export routines that
would handle the server-internal binary representatin.
regards, tom lane
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