On 06.07.21 13:04, Sudheer H R wrote:
I am trying to use libpq for interfacing with PostgreSQL from a C/C++ based
application.
I have tried to use binary format of data for both sending and receiving data
to and from server (resultFormat = 1).
As I understand most binary types, int, float etc… are encoded in bing-endian
byte order and they can be converted to appropriate host specific memory
representations.
However NUMERIC datatype is a more complex structure with multiple ints and
pointers.
I would like to know if there are published library functions that convert (to
and from) NUMERIC field to say, long double datatype
There is a third-party library called libpqtypes out there that adds
support for handling specific types on the libpq side. But I'm not sure
how up to date it is.
