Re: Accessing structured datatypes using libpq

On 6/10/2014 11:20 PM, Raimo Jormakka wrote:
>
> What is the recommended way of accessing structured data-types
> (especially JSONB and HSTORE) using libpq? It seems that by default
> JSONB data for example is returned as text.
>
> Is it not possible to have binary access to these data-types? If it is
> possible, then how do I do it exactly as the only thing I get from
> libpq is a void-pointer?

those are text data types.   there is no binary representations.



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