| From: | Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at> |
| Cc: | "Jason Armstrong *EXTERN*" <ja(at)riverdrums(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PQfformat question and retrieving bytea data in C |
| Date: | 2012-08-30 11:38:24 |
| Message-ID: | CAAfz9KOe_479JzAKR9UrB=ab1xa81mpNJCOoMbwyjqFhu5o-CA@mail.gmail.com |
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2012/8/30 Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>
> Jason Armstrong wrote:
> > I have updated my C library to return the binary data correctly. I
> > note the restriction on not being able to retrieve different columns
> > in different formats.
>
> Actually, PostgreSQL supports that if you use the line protocol
> to talk to the server (see the description of "Bind (F)" in
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/protocol-message-formats.html)
> .
>
> Alas, this is not supported by the C API.
> Maybe that would be a useful extension to libpq.
>
+1
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// Dmitriy.
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