Re: libpq - extending PQexecParams/PQexecPrepared to specify resultFormat for individual result columns - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Chernow
Subject Re: libpq - extending PQexecParams/PQexecPrepared to specify resultFormat for individual result columns
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Msg-id 4AEF048A.1090402@esilo.com
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In response to libpq - extending PQexecParams/PQexecPrepared to specify resultFormat for individual result columns  (Ivo Raisr <ivosh@ivosh.net>)
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Ivo Raisr wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I hacked PostgreSQL 8.4.1 libpq and added a new function to specify
> resultFormat for individual result columns.
> Are you interested in a patch?
> 
> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/libpq-exec.html says:
> There is not currently a provision to obtain different result columns
> in different formats, although that is possible in the underlying
> protocol.
> So I made this possible.)
> 

Can you explain the use case for this?  Have you investigated libpqtypes?

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