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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Ashutosh Bapat <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Wong <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: real/float example for testlibpq3
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 10:19:00 -0500
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Ashutosh Bapat <[email protected]> writes:
> I am wondering whether we should provide PQgetfloatvalue() which does
> what that example shows but transparently. It will return a float
> value of the given field instead of char *.

I'm against that, precisely because ...

> That will standardize the
> way to fetch real typed values in libpq. That leads to the next
> question. Do we need to introduce different PQget*value() for standard
> C/SQL data types.

... I do not want to go here.  Where would you stop?  How would you
deal with cross-machine inconsistencies in integer widths?

			regards, tom lane

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