Re: Postgres provider to use gda-srv lib

[Vivien Malerba <malerba linuxave net>]

On jeu, 06 jui 2000, you wrote:
> Vivien Malerba wrote:
> > 
> > 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 ?
> 
> I don't know if this is a stupid idea but CORBA has the Any type which
> is 
> the type that you want. 
> 
> -- Alvaro

IMO we are not talking about CORBA data types but about gnome-db ones,
which are in fact enumerated in an idl file. So I don't think we could go with
that CORBA data type.

Regards,

Vivien