On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 06:44:12AM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Instead of having it hijack the libpq connection and implement the
> wireline protocol itself, why don't we work on fixing the problems (such
> as the double-copying that libpq requires) in libpq to allow the driver
> (and others!) to use it in the 'orthodox' way?
Ok. I'm not sure what this "double copying" you're referring to is, but
I'd certaintly like to know why people are reimplementing the protocol
(psqlODBC is hardly the only one).
Is is that people want to use completely different interaction models?
Like work around the wait-for-whole-resultset-before-returing issue? Or
maybe better notice handling? What is it that's so deficient?
Or maybe it's portability? Like DBI PgPP module?
Have a nice day,
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