Re: Serialize

On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 14:57, Dave Cramer wrote:
> While fixing the handling of "unknown" data type in the result set I was
> faced with wading through the Serialize code.
>
> I am wondering if this is really a required/desireable feature?
>
> How many people out there are actually using it?
>
> Do we need/want it?
>
> My thoughts are:
>
> 1) There are plenty of persistence layers which do this job much better.
>
> 2) I don't think this belongs in a driver.
> 3) The code will be simpler.

How do I do a database request via JDBC and save the result set to a
text file on the client computer? Isn't that what serialize is for? If
so I need it in the driver.(and instructions on how to get it to work
=:-b)

Cheers

Tony Grant

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