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Re: Correctly producing array literals for prepared statements

Andrew Chernow <ac@esilo.com>

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From: Andrew Chernow <ac@esilo.com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Kenneth Marshall <ktm@rice.edu>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>, Peter Geoghegan <peter.geoghegan86@gmail.com>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-02-23T19:21:08Z
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> Binary mode had serious limitations, such as portability.
>

What are the other limitations?

As far as portability is concerned, we are using it on many different 
operating systems and architectures without issue.  Even our most recent 
bump to 9.0.1 and 9.0.3 was flawless in regard to libpq/libpqtypes.

> We do need some support in libpq for constructing and deconstructing
> arrays (and probably for composites too, although that will be harder, I
> suspect).
>

[sigh...]

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