Agreed.
Do you think we should just allow
string s;
sql << "select 3.14", into(s);
or do you think some new syntax for extra type safety would be warranted,
e.g.,
string s;
sql << "select 3.14", into_string(s);
?
Thanks,
Aleksander
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Vadim Zeitlin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:58:05 -0800 Pawel Aleksander Fedorynski <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> PAF> So am I getting this right: what you essentially need is the ability
> to
> PAF> override the field type provided by the database engine (double in
> this
> PAF> case) with one provided by the user (which would be probably string
> here.)
> PAF> Is that correct?
>
> Hello,
>
> I think this might be too generic. IMHO just retrieving anything as string
> (i.e. in its textual raw form) should be fine.
>
> PAF> I may be wrong, but I don't think soci has such feature yet (others
> please
> PAF> correct me if that's wrong.) I see no reason why it couldn't be
> PAF> implemented, though it may be not entirely trivial. This is the
> first time
> PAF> I think anyone needed such feature.
>
> It could have been useful for me when I was struggling by reading 64 bit
> integers from Oracle database via ODBC (Oracle ODBC is known to be broken
> and advertises support for SQL_BIGINT without really supporting it) but I
> already solved this inside SOCI in b82364e which is arguably even better.
> Still, being able to read the raw result would have allowed me to fix this
> faster. So I think the ability to retrieve textual representation from the
> database would be useful, as we already know of 2 different situations when
> it could be helpful.
>
> Regards,
> VZ
>
>
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