Re: Data transfer format between UNIX server and Windows client? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Data transfer format between UNIX server and Windows client?
Date
Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0104051750010.1084-100000@peter.localdomain
Whole thread Raw
In response to Data transfer format between UNIX server and Windows client?  ("Paul A. Lender" <lender@tc.umn.edu>)
List pgsql-general
Paul A. Lender writes:

> MY QUESTION -- When query results are sent to the client, where does the
> conversion of stored binary data to easily readable text take
> place:  on the server before it leaves for the clients, or at libpq.dll ON
> the clients?

In the server.

> If the transfer between boxes is text, does anyone have experience using an
> encrypted connection between a Unix box and a Windows client (without using
> a web server, that is)?

If you manage to find a Windows to Unix encryption solution then there
shouldn't be any fundamental problem.

--
Peter Eisentraut      peter_e@gmx.net       http://yi.org/peter-e/


pgsql-general by date:

Previous
From: "Oliver Elphick"
Date:
Subject: Re: cant delete row
Next
From: "ADBAAMD"
Date:
Subject: Re: Trouble with JOINS