"Marek Mosiewicz" <marekmosiewicz@poczta.onet.pl> writes:
> 1.is it safe to use binary cursors (basic types format e.g date would not
> change in future)
Don't do it. The internal representations are NOT guaranteed stable,
and moreover any such thing will guarantee that your code can not talk
to servers running on non-Intel architectures. (I'm sure MS/Intel
would love you to do that, but don't.)
> 2.how could I control result type (binary/ASCII) for ordinary SELECTS ?
You can't, but it doesn't matter, see above.
regards, tom lane
