Re: Practical impediment to supporting multiple SSL libraries

Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:

> Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> > I think there's some confusion about what problem this is aiming to solve. I
> > thought the primary problem ODBC and other drivers have is just that they want
> > to be able to fetch whatever records are available instead of waiting for the
> > entire query results to be ready.
>
> No, that's not what I'm thinking about at all, and I don't think Martijn
> is either. The point here is that ODBC wants to store the resultset in
> a considerably different format from what libpq natively provides, and
> we'd like to avoid the conversion overhead.

So how would you provide the data to the callback? And how does having a
callback instead of a regular downcall give you any more flexibility in how
you present the data?

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greg