Re: PQParam version 0.5

On Dec 6, 2007 11:58 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I want to buy into the idea that libpq should know explicitly about each
> and every backend datatype.

I don' t necessarily agree with this. First of all, the server gives
you an oid for the column which introduces the dependency...this has
been the case for a while now. Secondly, why shouldn't the client
library understand the data the server hands out, at least for
built-in types.

Usings arrays in client side apps is a huge pain...and not efficient
for large arrays. Same for the variable length geometry types.

merlin