X-Original-To: pgsql-interfaces-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03E68D1B50F for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:05:09 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 70357-07 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:05:05 -0300 (ADT) Received: from fzkmail2.fzk.de (fzkmail2.fzk.de [141.52.27.52]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 44AD1D1B432 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:05:00 -0300 (ADT) Received: FROM resy5.fzk.de BY fzkmail2.fzk.de ; Tue Apr 27 15:04:47 2004 +0200 Received: œby rodos.fzk.de with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.7.1) id PAA19445; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:04:46 +0200 (METDST) From: Christoph Haller Message-Id: <200404271304.PAA20524@rodos> Subject: Re: I hope I'm missing something... To: bplummer@hotmail.com Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:04:45 METDST Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org In-Reply-To: <200404250445.17972.peter_e@gmx.net>; from "Peter Eisentraut" at Apr 25, 104 4:51 am X-Mailer: Elm [revision: 212.4] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Amavis-Alert: BAD HEADER Non-encoded 8-bit data (char 9C hex) in message header 'Received' Received: \234by rodos.fzk.de... ^ X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200404/65 X-Sequence-Number: 4886 > > brian plummer wrote: > > I've just spent some time looking at the libpq API and it appears > > that I cannot process the actual field data from a select statement > > in the native type of that field. Is this correct? > > Yes. You are more likely to be happy with ECPG or ODBC, which provide > that functionality. > > It can give you the native type, but only if you're using binary cursors. Regards, Christoph