diff -u postgresql-6.5.2/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c postgresql-6.5.2-with-bind/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c
--- postgresql-6.5.2/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c	Thu May 27 21:54:53 1999
+++ postgresql-6.5.2-with-bind/src/interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c	Thu Oct 21 15:32:28 1999
@@ -869,19 +869,53 @@
 				vlen = vlen - 4;
 			if (vlen < 0)
 				vlen = 0;
-			if (tup[i].value == NULL)
-			{
+			if ((conn->tuple_destinations == NULL) || 
+			    (0==conn->tuple_destinations[i].len_max))
+			  {
+
+			    if (tup[i].value == NULL)
+			      {
 				tup[i].value = (char *) pqResultAlloc(result, vlen + 1, binary);
 				if (tup[i].value == NULL)
-					goto outOfMemory;
-			}
-			tup[i].len = vlen;
-			/* read in the value */
-			if (vlen > 0)
-				if (pqGetnchar((char *) (tup[i].value), vlen, conn))
+				  goto outOfMemory;
+			      }
+
+			    /* read in the value */
+			    if (vlen > 0)
+			      if (pqGetnchar((char *) (tup[i].value), vlen, conn))
+				return EOF;
+			    /* we have to terminate this ourselves */
+			    tup[i].value[vlen] = '\0';
+			  }
+			else
+			  {
+				if (conn->tuple_destinations[i].len_max < vlen)
+				{
+					pqClearAsyncResult(conn);
+					sprintf(conn->errorMessage,
+							"getAnotherTuple() -- column %d is %d bytes larger than bound destination\n", i, vlen-conn->tuple_destinations[i].len_max);
+					conn->result = PQmakeEmptyPGresult(conn, PGRES_FATAL_ERROR);
+					conn->asyncStatus = PGASYNC_READY;
+					/* Discard the broken message */
+					conn->inStart = conn->inEnd;
 					return EOF;
-			/* we have to terminate this ourselves */
-			tup[i].value[vlen] = '\0';
+				}
+
+				/* we set length returned no matter what */
+			        *(conn->tuple_destinations[i].len_returned) = vlen;
+
+				/* read in the value */
+				if (vlen > 0)
+				{
+				  if (pqGetnchar((char *) (conn->tuple_destinations[i].value), vlen, conn))
+				    return EOF;
+
+				  /* we only null terminate when there's space */
+				  if (conn->tuple_destinations[i].len_max > vlen)
+				    conn->tuple_destinations[i].value[vlen] = '\0';
+				}
+			  }
+			tup[i].len = vlen;
 		}
 		/* advance the bitmap stuff */
 		bitcnt++;
@@ -1921,4 +1955,18 @@
 		return 1;
 	else
 		return 0;
+}
+
+void
+PQsetResultDest(PGconn* conn, PGbinding* _dest)
+{
+  if (0==conn) return;
+  conn->tuple_destinations = _dest;
+}
+
+void
+PQclearResultDest(PGconn* conn)
+{
+  if (0==conn) return;
+  conn->tuple_destinations = 0;
 }
diff -u postgresql-6.5.2/src/interfaces/libpq/libpq-fe.h postgresql-6.5.2-with-bind/src/interfaces/libpq/libpq-fe.h
--- postgresql-6.5.2/src/interfaces/libpq/libpq-fe.h	Tue May 25 12:15:13 1999
+++ postgresql-6.5.2-with-bind/src/interfaces/libpq/libpq-fe.h	Thu Oct 21 15:37:04 1999
@@ -27,6 +27,13 @@
 
 /* Application-visible enum types */
 
+	typedef struct pgbinding
+	{
+	  int len_max;		/* [IN] length in bytes of the value buffer */
+	  int* len_returned; /* [OUT] pointer to int that receives bytes returned */    
+	  char* value;	/* [OUT] actual value returned */
+	} PGbinding;
+
 	typedef enum
 	{
 		CONNECTION_OK,
@@ -198,6 +205,10 @@
 												 void *arg);
 
 /* === in fe-exec.c === */
+
+	/* result destinationn functions (for column binding and other things...)*/
+	extern void PQsetResultDest(PGconn *conn, PGbinding* dest);
+	extern void PQclearResultDest(PGconn *conn);
 
 	/* Simple synchronous query */
 	extern PGresult *PQexec(PGconn *conn, const char *query);
Only in postgresql-6.5.2-with-bind/src/interfaces/libpq: libpq-fe.h~
diff -u postgresql-6.5.2/src/interfaces/libpq/libpq-int.h postgresql-6.5.2-with-bind/src/interfaces/libpq/libpq-int.h
--- postgresql-6.5.2/src/interfaces/libpq/libpq-int.h	Tue May 25 18:43:49 1999
+++ postgresql-6.5.2-with-bind/src/interfaces/libpq/libpq-int.h	Thu Oct 21 15:34:36 1999
@@ -217,6 +217,9 @@
 	PGresult   *result;			/* result being constructed */
 	PGresAttValue *curTuple;	/* tuple currently being read */
 
+                        /* optional column bind location */
+                        PGbinding *tuple_destinations; 
+  
 	/* Message space.  Placed last for code-size reasons. */
 	char		errorMessage[ERROR_MSG_LENGTH];
 };