Dann Corbit wrote:
> > Oh, you have the length information for each datum all right. It's on
> > the first four bytes of it.
>
> Sure, but when I bind to a grid, I need to know a-priori how big the
> biggest returned instance can be. Reading the entire data set twice to
> learn the size of a constant seems rather conceptually odd to me.
Did you read up on typmod already? I think that's part of the info sent
down in the query response.
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