Re: [HACKERS] Re: [INTERFACES] retrieving varchar size

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> Tom Lane wrote:
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> > >>>> Other front-end libraries reading this protocol will have to change
> > >>>> to accept this field.
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> > And the end-of-query indicator. I think now is the time to do it if
> > we're gonna do it. Right now, it seems most code is using libpq rather
> > than seeing the protocol directly, so fixing these problems should be
> > pretty painless. But wasn't there some discussion recently of running
> > the protocol directly from Tcl code? If that gets popular it will
> > become much harder to change the protocol.
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> Hello,
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> Please remember that the ODBC driver handles the protocol directly, (it does
> not use libpq). I would assume that if you guys make protocol changes you
> will post a summary of them on the interfaces list?

Absolutely. Guaranteed.

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