David Wheeler wrote: > On Saturday, December 14, 2002, at 05:46 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Yes, thanks David. You are correct, and I meant to talk about that, > > but > > by the time I got to the end of the email, I had forgotten. > > > > We are looking to overhaul the wire protocol for 7.4, and one of the > > TODO items is: > > > > o Special passing of binary values in platform-neutral format > > (bytea?) > > > > What this will allow us to do is to pass binary to the server as a > > self-contained value, rather than inside the query string. This will > > make things much easier for binary data. > > Every kind of data. Great for real prepared statements. Great for > possibly creating a more robust client-side interface that doesn't rely > solely on constructing SQL statements. > > I assume that this is non-trivial, though, and it'll be a while before > we see 7.4, yes? I'm also looking forward to Tom's optimizing of
6-9 months. We are doing Win32 port, replication, and point-in-time recovery in the same release. > subselects! Yes, that one too. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073
