Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com> writes:
> I am wondering whether we should provide PQgetfloatvalue() which does
> what that example shows but transparently. It will return a float
> value of the given field instead of char *.
I'm against that, precisely because ...
> That will standardize the
> way to fetch real typed values in libpq. That leads to the next
> question. Do we need to introduce different PQget*value() for standard
> C/SQL data types.
... I do not want to go here. Where would you stop? How would you
deal with cross-machine inconsistencies in integer widths?
regards, tom lane