Re: fetch floats/doubles in native binary representation

2006-05-26 Thread Jay Pipes
Andras Pal wrote: Hi, I've a large table with lots of floats (or doubles) that i want to query using C API. By default, in C, the rows are returned as a type of char **, therefore floating numbers are returned as ascii strings. Is it possible to fetch somehow directly these numbers in their ori

fetch floats/doubles in native binary representation

2006-05-25 Thread Andras Pal
Hi, I've a large table with lots of floats (or doubles) that i want to query using C API. By default, in C, the rows are returned as a type of char **, therefore floating numbers are returned as ascii strings. Is it possible to fetch somehow directly these numbers in their original binary represe