From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: maillist@candle.pha.pa.us
Cc: daveh@insightdist.com
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Cc: hackers@postgreSQL.org
Cc: byronn@insightdist.com
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] atttypmod now 32 bits, interface change
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 11:18:21 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <199807131518.LAA11763@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
> > Not that we have been sitting on our hands, but we have been waiting for the
> > FE/BE protocol to stabilize before updating the ODBC driver to the 6.4
> > specs. Have we reached this point?
>
> Of course, beta does not start until Sep 1, so it is possible to wait
> some more to see of other things change before updating things, but
> currently, there are no open items I know about.
I have also renamed some of the client structure names used internally
by libpq. adtid, adtsize were too strange/confusing for me. Now they
are typid and typlen. Should help clarify why atttypmod is needed,
because many types, varchar(), don't have TYPE sizes.
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