Re: PQfformat question and retrieving bytea data in C - Mailing list pgsql-general

Jason Armstrong wrote:
> I have updated my C library to return the binary data correctly. I
> note the restriction on not being able to retrieve different columns
> in different formats.

Actually, PostgreSQL supports that if you use the line protocol
to talk to the server (see the description of "Bind (F)" in
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/protocol-message-formats.html)
.

Alas, this is not supported by the C API.
Maybe that would be a useful extension to libpq.