Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I wasn't aware you could throw binary values into the timestamp fields > > like that. I thought you needed to use a C string for the value. > > This facility was added in 7.4 as part of the wire-protocol overhaul. > It's nothing directly to do with PREPARE; you could get the same result > with no prepared statement using PQexecParams.
Ah, no wonder I had not seen that before. So, I guess the issue is how much error checking do we want to have for these binary values. I was a little disturbed to hear he could insert data he couldn't later view. How many datatype have this issue? -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly