On Dec 6, 2007 11:58 AM, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to buy into the idea that libpq should know explicitly about each > and every backend datatype.
I don' t necessarily agree with this. First of all, the server gives you an oid for the column which introduces the dependency...this has been the case for a while now. Secondly, why shouldn't the client library understand the data the server hands out, at least for built-in types. Usings arrays in client side apps is a huge pain...and not efficient for large arrays. Same for the variable length geometry types. merlin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
