X-Original-To: pgsql-interfaces-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 278DFD1B19A for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:35:06 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 89011-05 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 19:35:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.84]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD14DD1B1C8 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:34:58 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mac.com (smtpin07-en2 [10.13.10.152]) by smtpout.mac.com (8.12.6/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id i5EJYxr2027961; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:34:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.230] (ip-208.178.167.14.gblx.net [208.178.167.14]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin07/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id i5EJYLrx019017; Mon, 14 Jun 2004 12:34:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1087239429.11304.14.camel@dmxnocws13.dialmex.net> References: <405AD008-BE30-11D8-B774-000A959CE7FA@mac.com> <1087239429.11304.14.camel@dmxnocws13.dialmex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org From: Eliot Simcoe Subject: Re: libpq binary transfer of the numeric data type Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 15:34:19 -0400 To: David Stanaway X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.618) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200406/37 X-Sequence-Number: 4965 I'm aware of a few wrappers that exist, but none that do type conversion. The particular wrapper in use by opengroupware.org seems to rely on Apple's Enterprise Objects framework which is no longer supported on Mac OS X AFAIK. In addition, I don't believe it does anything but extremely limited type conversion. On Jun 14, 2004, at 2:57 PM, David Stanaway wrote: > On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 13:25, Eliot Simcoe wrote: >> Hello Everyone, >> >> I am writing an Objective-C wrapper of libpq and would like >> toimplement automatic type conversion between the standard >> PostgreSQLdata types and associated Objective-C wrapper classes. > > > Hi, > > I don't use Objective-C but I thought you might want to have a look at > opengroupware.org They use postgresql as their RDBMS and interface > with > it with Objective-C so they already have a wrapper for it. > > -- > David Stanaway > > ---------------------------(end of > broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html