Re: Proposal: CREATE CONVERSION

From: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: zakkr(at)zf(dot)jcu(dot)cz
Cc: peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Proposal: CREATE CONVERSION
Date: 2002-07-11 09:30:48
Message-ID: 20020711.183048.85411887.t-ishii@sra.co.jp
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> > No, it's not a libpq problem, but more common "client/server" problem
> > IMO. It's very hard to share dynamically created object (info)
> > effectively between client and server.
>
> IMHO dynamic object will keep server and client must ask for wanted
> information to server.

I agree with you. However real problem is how fast it could be. For
example, pg_mblen() is called for each word processed by libpq to know
the byte length of the word. If each call to pg_mblen() accesses
backend, the performance might be unacceptably slow.
--
Tatsuo Ishii

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