[ resending from proper address ]
Kris Jurka <books@ejurka.com> writes:
> On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It'd be a good idea to go back and look at the details before thinking
>> of adopting UNKNOWN in a more general context.
> No, actually we went with this solution simply because we had no other
> options. This may work fine for text data, but how could we possibly
> implement sending in binary format?
That one's simple --- you don't. Anything you have down as UNKNOWN,
send as text. You have the option per-parameter in Bind, remember.
regards, tom lane