From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: hannu@trust.ee
Cc: gerhardr@tech-edv.co.at
Cc: avd@avd.garsib.ru
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Cc: byronn@insightdist.com
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Re: ODBC driver and Dates
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 21:16:22 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <199804190116.VAA07618@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35387C24.43F04F82@sid.trust.ee>
> It has nothing to do with representation, but how data is transferred
> between client and server. The representation is done et a completely
> different level. It is due to PostgreSQL lacking a common universal
> binary transfer format that these problems have emerged in the first
> place - there is no sharp distinction between internal protocol and
> external representation.
>
> I think it was not meant to be that way at first, as there are special
> placed reserved in pg_type for both type conversion functions :
> typinput/typoutput (presumably machine dependent ones) and
> typreceive/typsend (presumably network-neutral ones),
> somehow they are always the same .
>
> I think that getting a common network-neutral binary format should also
> be in the TODO. Bruce?
This is an interesting idea. It would be good to have more discussion
before I put something on the TODO list. Not sure exactly where we are
going with this.
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