From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199804271451.KAA04975@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [INTERFACES] retrieving varchar size
To: byronn@insightdist.com (Byron Nikolaidis)
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:51:28 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org,
	pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
In-Reply-To: <3544961A.26395F19@insightdist.com> from "Byron Nikolaidis" at
	Apr 27, 98 10:28:42 am
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> 
> 
> Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> > >>>> Other front-end libraries reading this protocol will have to change
> > >>>> to accept this field.
> >
> > And the end-of-query indicator.  I think now is the time to do it if
> > we're gonna do it.  Right now, it seems most code is using libpq rather
> > than seeing the protocol directly, so fixing these problems should be
> > pretty painless.  But wasn't there some discussion recently of running
> > the protocol directly from Tcl code?  If that gets popular it will
> > become much harder to change the protocol.
> >
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Please remember that the ODBC driver handles the protocol directly, (it does
> not use libpq).  I would assume that if you guys make protocol changes you
> will post a summary of them on the interfaces list?

Absolutely.  Guaranteed.

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