X-Original-To: pgsql-odbc-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96C0F9DCAB7 for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 07:06:42 -0400 (AST) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 54483-02 for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 07:06:44 -0400 (AST) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A65CA9DCABA for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2005 07:06:39 -0400 (AST) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 09 Dec 2005 11:06:41 -0000 Received: from dslb-084-063-017-061.pools.arcor-ip.net (EHLO colt.pezone.net) [84.63.17.61] by mail.gmx.net (mp006) with SMTP; 09 Dec 2005 12:06:41 +0100 X-Authenticated: #495269 From: Peter Eisentraut To: pgsql-odbc@postgresql.org Subject: Re: BLOB handling compatibility with PostgreSQL > 7.4 Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 12:06:34 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: Marc Herbert References: <438B792D.6030802@bnl.gov> <200512081911.30002.peter_e@gmx.net> <87zmnah7km.fsf@meije.emic.fr> In-Reply-To: <87zmnah7km.fsf@meije.emic.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512091206.35456.peter_e@gmx.net> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.284 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.284] X-Spam-Score: 0.284 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200512/110 X-Sequence-Number: 6589 Marc Herbert wrote: > > I was thinking the ODBC driver should provide the appropriate > > mapping. > > We aim to be as transparent as possible and avoid "mappings". > So continuent is now writing an ODBC driver for PostgreSQL, or what are you trying to say? > Moreover, the respective interfaces have very different semantics > (pointer or not). This can be a reason in itself to prefer one or the > other type, whatever the underlying implementation is. This is handwaving. I know the section in the documentation; I wrote it. But what actual reasons do you have for using one or the other? -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/