* Florian Pflug: > On Nov24, 2011, at 10:03 , Florian Weimer wrote: >> I would like to add functionality which allows a client to tell the >> server which types can be sent in binary format. The immediate goal is >> to suppress hex quoting for BYTEA values, but it seems to make sense to >> make this functionality more general. > > If you use the extended query protocol, the client can already choose > text vs. binary representation on a per-column basis. You can query > the result's column types by issuing a Describe message after the > Parse message. For each column you can then decide whether you want > textual or binary representation, and include that choice in the > subsequent Bind message.
Interesting. Doesn't this introduce another roundtrip? -- Florian Weimer <fwei...@bfk.de> BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100 tel: +49-721-96201-1 D-76133 Karlsruhe fax: +49-721-96201-99 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
