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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] C program Postgres 6.3 and date
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> I recently upgraded postgres from version ~6 to 6.3.  Unfortunately,
> where before I had everything passed back as text strings now things 
> are being passed back in their binary form.

(I'm not sure if you already got a response)

You should be seeing text, not binary data. Although v6.3 shouldn't
have any particular problem with this, I would suggest upgrading to
v6.4.2 asap and make sure that any apps you have are using the new
libraries.

Good luck.

                        - Tom

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Thomas Lockhart				lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu
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