From: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
Cc: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Hiroshi Inoue <inoue@tpf.co.jp>
Subject: Re: Practical impediment to supporting multiple SSL libraries
Date: 13 Apr 2006 16:26:28 -0400
Message-ID: <87odz5gr2j.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28809.1144952227@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:
> > I think there's some confusion about what problem this is aiming to solve. I
> > thought the primary problem ODBC and other drivers have is just that they want
> > to be able to fetch whatever records are available instead of waiting for the
> > entire query results to be ready.
>
> No, that's not what I'm thinking about at all, and I don't think Martijn
> is either. The point here is that ODBC wants to store the resultset in
> a considerably different format from what libpq natively provides, and
> we'd like to avoid the conversion overhead.
So how would you provide the data to the callback? And how does having a
callback instead of a regular downcall give you any more flexibility in how
you present the data?
--
greg
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