On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 7:01 AM, Merlin Moncure <[email protected]> wrote:
> Note, we wrote libpqtypes (http://libpqtypes.esilo.com/) precisely to > deal with this problem -- first class handling of arrays and > composites in the client. It's not much help for a perl client, but I > think similar methodologies can be made for most languages. Sending > rich data structures directly to procedures in the database transforms > the way the application/database communications work for the better. > It's new and weird to many developers, especially those trained on ORM > usage patterns, but is also entirely effective. > Cool :-) As I understand it DBD::Pg has excellent handling of both these things too. The reason we are not doing more with the composite types yet is because we currently support versions of DBD::Pg which support arrays well but not the composite types, though that will probably change in 1.4. I wonder which other languages have first class support for these areas of Pg? Best Wishes, Chris Travers -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
