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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:14:38 +1300
From: Ralph Mason <ralph.mason@telogis.com>
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To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: Binary Refcursor possible?
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Ralph Mason <ralph.mason@telogis.com> writes:
>   
>> Is there any way I can say make ret a binary cursor?
>>     
>
> It's possible to determine that at the protocol level, if you're using
> V3 protocol; but whether this is exposed to an application depends on
> what client-side software you are using.  Which you didn't say.
>
> 			regards, tom lane
>   
This is probably in the documentation but I couldn't find it.

All I could see is that if you open a cursor for  binary it would return 
with a type of binary rather than text in the row data messages.  The 
RowDescription format code is always text, and the cursor thing is the 
only way I could see to change that.

Is there some setting I can set that will make it return all data as 
binary?  The dream would also be that I could ask the server it's native 
byte order and have it send me binary data in it's native byte order.  
Nice and fast. :-0

Ralph