Dave Cramer
On Sun, 24 Jul 2022 at 23:02, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota....@gmail.com> wrote: > At Fri, 22 Jul 2022 11:00:18 -0400, Dave Cramer <davecra...@gmail.com> > wrote in > > As a proof of concept I provide the attached patch which implements the > > ability to specify which oids will be returned in binary format per > > session. > ... > > Both the JDBC driver and the go driver can exploit this change with no > > changes. I haven't confirmed if other drivers would work without changes. > > I'm not sure about the needs of that, but binary exchange format is > not the one that can be turned on ignoring the peer's capability. I'm not sure what this means. The client is specifying which types it wants in binary format. > If > JDBC driver wants some types be sent in binary format, it seems to be > able to be specified in bind message. > To be clear it's not just the JDBC client; the original idea came from the author of go driver. And yes you can specify it in the bind message but you have to specify it in *every* bind message which pretty much negates any advantage you might get out of binary format due to the extra round trip. Regards, Dave > > regards. > > -- > Kyotaro Horiguchi > NTT Open Source Software Center >
