Re: Postgres provider to use gda-srv lib

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo linuxave net>]

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 ?
> 
> Rodrigo, what do you think?
> 
I think Peter is right. So, I'll add the GDA_TypeUnknown type in the IDL
files. This type should be treated as binary, isn't it?

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