Re: [PATCHES] libpq type system 0.9a

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
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 12:04:17
Message-ID: 47FCB0C1.9030704@dunslane.net
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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.

cheers

andrew

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