Re: [PATCHES] libpq type system 0.9a

From: "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: "Gregory Stark" <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Jeff Davis" <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>, "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "Andrew Chernow" <ac(at)esilo(dot)com>, "Joe Conway" <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] libpq type system 0.9a
Date: 2008-04-09 12:14:56
Message-ID: b42b73150804090514v5b1df2b9x4b8896ed75783d01@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
\> Merlin Moncure wrote:
>
> > However, due to libpq limitations, if any datatype must
> > return text the entire result must be text (resultFormat)...this is
> > also interestingly true for functions that return 'void'. So, at
> > present, to use PQgetf, you result set must be binary.
>
> I'm surprised you didn't try to address that limitation.

whoops! we did...thinko on my part. Text results are fully supported
save for composites and arrays.

merlin

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