Ken Geis <kgeis@speakeasy.net> writes:
> On Oct 25, 2005, at 6:32 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The proposed change is probably a good idea anyway, primarily because
>> there isn't necessarily any template1 database. But if fetching
>> aclitem[] fails then there's something quite wrong, and I don't believe
>> it's on the server side.
> aclitem is one of few types that does not have send and receive
> functions defined.
Oh, my mistake, I looked at the entry for _aclitem ... but you're right,
the underlying type doesn't have 'em.
> The problem came up for me because I am implementing binary
> data transfer in the JDBC driver, and my first draft assumes that all
> data transfers are binary.
This is a really bad assumption, unless you intend never to support any
user-defined types.
regards, tom lane