On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 10:42:33AM -0400, Greg Stark wrote: > Hm, now that I've had some sleep I think I see where you're going with this. > > As long as there's a defined wire protocol (and there will always be one) then > there's nothing wrong with what the psqlODBC driver is doing and having a > libpq mode that hands off small bits of the unparsed stream isn't really any > different than just having the driver read the unparsed data from the socket.
Well, the main motivation for this is that when a new version of the protocol appears, libpq will support it but psqlODBC won't. If libpq provides a way to get these small bits of the unparsed stream in a protocol independant way, then that problem goes away. There are a number of other (primarily driver) projects that would benefit from being able to bypass the PGresult structure for storing data. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Patent. n. Genius is 5% inspiration and 95% perspiration. A patent is a > tool for doing 5% of the work and then sitting around waiting for someone > else to do the other 95% so you can sue them.
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