"Also sprach Tom Lane:"
> "Peter T. Breuer" <ptb@inv.it.uc3m.es> writes:
> > But can I prepare a DECLARE x BINARY CURSOR FOR SELECT ... statement?
> > The manual seems to say no.
>
> No, you just prepare the SELECT. At the protocol level, DECLARE CURSOR
> is a tad useless. You can still fetch the data in binary if you want...
How? It's a 7.4 server (or may be, more generally) and declare binary
cursor is the only way I know to get binary data off it. AFAIR the only
other way works only for an 8.* server and consists of sending the query
with an annotation that a binary reply is expected.
Peter