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> brian plummer wrote:
> > I've just spent some time looking at the libpq API and it appears
> > that I cannot process the actual field data from a select statement
> > in the native type of that field. Is this correct?
>
> Yes. You are more likely to be happy with ECPG or ODBC, which provide
> that functionality.
>
>
It can give you the native type, but only if you're using binary cursors.
Regards, Christoph