> IMHO basic encoding information like name and id are not problem.
> The PQmblen() is big problem. Strange question: is PQmblen() really
> needful? I see it's used for result printing, but why backend not
> mark size of field (word) to result? If backend good knows size of
> data why not send this information to client togeter with data?
PQmblen() is used by psql in many places. It is used for parsing query
texts supplied by user, not only for data sent from backend.
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Tatsuo Ishii