Re: Postgres provider to use gda-srv lib

[Vivien Malerba <malerba linuxave net>]

On jeu, 06 jui 2000, you wrote:
> I'm worried about data corruption.  Let's say that data comes out, and it's
> actually structured data of some kind.  It gets turned into a varchar, then
> re-inserted into the database.  Because it was structured somehow (probably
> with binary data) the locale settings could cause different data to be
> re-inserted.
> 
> I'd like to float the idea of an undefined raw-data type for these cases,
> where the user has to define some kind of translation for themselves.
> 

Yes, you have a point here! It looks a nice idea to define a data type which
means that it is unknown so the user knows that when he gets a varvhar, it
really is a varchar. If he gets that data type, he can still then consider
it as varchar if he wants so. Why not TypeUnknown ?

Rodrigo, what do you think?

BTW, Peter, it looks the email adress spacey@lenin.nu leads to nothing (or is
it just a problem with my mail delivery system?)

Cheers,

Vivien