Re: [DB-SIG] Controlling return types, again

2007-05-21 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Hmm, a bit hard to read, your reply. I've added some more quote chars to make it easier... On 2007-05-19 19:55, Carsten Haese wrote: > >> quote=""" >> In general, I think that we shouldn't expose/impose such a >> low-level interface for type mapping. These details should be >> left to the module

Re: [DB-SIG] Controlling return types, again

2007-05-21 Thread Carsten Haese
Thanks for your input. I won't bother quoting all that, because it seems to me that we actually have a lot of common ground. You seem to be proposing that the user should write a converter dispatcher function that returns a "binding hint" and an adapter function. In my proposal, the dispatcher is

Re: [DB-SIG] Controlling return types, again

2007-05-21 Thread Carl Karsten
I have been following this on and off. I don't have much to add to the specific problem, but I do have some general thoughts that may help. I. It seems to be a similar (not same, and even similar may be a stretch) problem to the parameter formating problem 'solved' by .paramstyle which is one of

Re: [DB-SIG] Controlling return types, again

2007-05-21 Thread Carsten Haese
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 16:46 -0500, Carl Karsten wrote: > I have been following this on and off. I don't have much to add to the > specific > problem, but I do have some general thoughts that may help. > > I. > It seems to be a similar (not same, and even similar may be a stretch) problem > to th

Re: [DB-SIG] Controlling return types, again

2007-05-21 Thread Carl Karsten
Carsten Haese wrote: > On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 16:46 -0500, Carl Karsten wrote: >> I have been following this on and off. I don't have much to add to the >> specific >> problem, but I do have some general thoughts that may help. >> >> I. >> It seems to be a similar (not same, and even similar may b