From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199807131518.LAA11763@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] atttypmod now 32 bits, interface change
In-Reply-To: From maillist at "Jul 13, 1998  9:59:47 am"
To: maillist@candle.pha.pa.us (maillist)
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 11:18:21 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: daveh@insightdist.com, pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org,
	hackers@postgreSQL.org, byronn@insightdist.com
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> > 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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