Re: Binary Refcursor possible?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Ralph Mason <ralph(dot)mason(at)telogis(dot)com> writes:
>
>> Is there any way I can say make ret a binary cursor?
>>
>
> It's possible to determine that at the protocol level, if you're using
> V3 protocol; but whether this is exposed to an application depends on
> what client-side software you are using. Which you didn't say.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
This is probably in the documentation but I couldn't find it.

All I could see is that if you open a cursor for binary it would return
with a type of binary rather than text in the row data messages. The
RowDescription format code is always text, and the cursor thing is the
only way I could see to change that.

Is there some setting I can set that will make it return all data as
binary? The dream would also be that I could ask the server it's native
byte order and have it send me binary data in it's native byte order.
Nice and fast. :-0

Ralph