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".
> <http://www.continuent.org/>
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/
