> What's bothering me right now is the
> difference between client and server encodings. It seems that the
only
> plausible use for octet_length is to do memory allocation on the
client
> side, and for that purpose the length ought to be measured in the
client
> encoding. People seem to be happy with letting octet_length take the
> easy way out (measure in the server encoding), and I'm trying to get
> someone to explain to me why that's the right behavior. I
> don't see it.
I agree. octet_length should be the number of bytes the client gets when
he
does "select textfield from atable".
Andreas
