Tom Lane wrote:
>>I'd think that binary support at the protocol level would obsolete the
>>need for the DECLARE BINARY CURSOR command.
>
> Yeah, but making something obsolete is not the same as being willing to
> remove it immediately. If we keep DECLARE BINARY CURSOR around, how
> should it act?
The protocol level should win if it is set to binary, but I think the
statement level has to win otherwise in order to maintain backward
compatibility, at least for the next release.
Joe
