| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Joe Conway <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Bytea string operator support |
| Date: | 2001-09-14 17:45:19 |
| Message-ID: | 200109141745.f8EHjJT28136@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > I agree this is type pollution into libpq but I don't see another option
> > except having the user code this stuff into their application. Maybe we
> > need some type-handling library in the future were we can put all this
> > stuff. Maybe we can add this to libpq now and create a separate library
> > when we need one.
>
> We probably do. After all, the strings you get are not really the most
> optimal form, especially for numbers, dates, and booleans. Looks at the
> JDBC spec, they have getXXX for each data type.
Agreed. Let's add this now and start thinking about developing a
separate lib for 7.3.
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