From: | Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>, Andrew Chernow <ac(at)esilo(dot)com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [PATCHES] libpq type system 0.9a |
Date: | 2008-04-09 13:09:58 |
Message-ID: | 20080409130958.GA13514@feivel.credativ.de |
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On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 07:18:31PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> sure that there's much potential commonality. The thing that's most
> problematic about ecpg is that it wants to offer client-side equivalents
> of some server datatype-manipulation functions; and I don't actually see
> much of any of that in the proposed patch. All that's really here is
> format conversion stuff, so there's no hope of unifying that code
> unless this patch adopts ecpg's choices of client-side representation
ecpg for instance does not use a struct for time, so there doesn't seem
to be an advantance for ecpg in switching. On the other side there's a
disadvantage in that you can binary transfer right now given that you're
on the same architecture. But if the datatypes differ this would be
lost.
> (which I believe are mostly Informix legacy choices, so I'm not sure we
> want that).
Not really. ecpg's pgtypeslib uses the same datatypes as the backend
uses (well, mostly because numeric was changed in the backend after the
creation of pgtypeslib). Then there's a compatibility layer that maps
Informix functions and datatypes to our functions and datatypes.
Michael
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