Re: Request for comment on setting binary format output per session

Dave Cramer


On Sat, 4 Mar 2023 at 11:35, Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2023-03-02 at 09:13 -0500, Dave Cramer wrote:
> > I'd like to open up this discussion again so that we can
> > move forward. I prefer the GUC as it is relatively simple and as
> > Peter mentioned it works, but I'm not married to the idea.
>
> It's not very friendly to extensions, where the types are not
> guaranteed to have stable OIDs. Did you consider any proposals that
> work with type names?
>

I had not.
Most of the clients know how to decode the builtin types. I'm not sure
there is a use case for binary encode types that the clients don't have a
priori knowledge of.

Dave

>
> Regards,
>         Jeff Davis
>
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