Re: Data transfer format between UNIX server and Windows client?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: "Paul A(dot) Lender" <lender(at)tc(dot)umn(dot)edu>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Data transfer format between UNIX server and Windows client?
Date: 2001-04-05 15:52:46
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0104051750010.1084-100000@peter.localdomain
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Paul A. Lender writes:

> MY QUESTION -- When query results are sent to the client, where does the
> conversion of stored binary data to easily readable text take
> place: on the server before it leaves for the clients, or at libpq.dll ON
> the clients?

In the server.

> If the transfer between boxes is text, does anyone have experience using an
> encrypted connection between a Unix box and a Windows client (without using
> a web server, that is)?

If you manage to find a Windows to Unix encryption solution then there
shouldn't be any fundamental problem.

--
Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://yi.org/peter-e/

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