From: Michael Meskes <Michael_Meskes@topmail.de>
To: PostgreSQL Interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org>
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] SQLDA
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 20:01:14 +0100
Message-ID: <19990301200114.B833@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36DAC925.99702276@alumni.caltech.edu>
References: <19990223204537.A246@gmx.net>
<36DAC925.99702276@alumni.caltech.edu>
On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 05:06:45PM +0000, Thomas G. Lockhart wrote:
> SQL92 has a standard for SQLDAs, though they are not called that in the
> standard. "A Guide to the SQL Standard" by Date and Darwen discusses the
> SQL92 version of SQLDAs, and points out that:
>
> "... several SQL products do already support some kind of SQLDA, and
> even refer to it by that name, but those SQLDAs are typically not the
> same as the 'SQLDA' defined in the standard. In particular, the standard
> SQLDA is encapsulated (meaning that its internal structure is not
> specified in the standard and is thus a fortiori hidden from the user),
> whereas the same is typically not true of the SQLDAs in current
> products."
That's okay with me. Could we even use the PGresult structure as SQLDA?
> They also point out that the standard includes facilities for allocating
> SQL DA storage and provides mechanisms for moving data in and out of SQL
> DAs.
I wonder where to find this standard.
Michael
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