Am Dienstag, 16. August 2005 22:08 schrieb Greg Stark: > Janning Vygen <vygen@xxxxxx> writes: > > What kind of "binary format" do you mean? anyway: In PHP you get it as a > > string and i wonder if anyone has written a small pasrer function for php > > to handle this string an convert it into an php array structure. > > The server can provide each data type in either ascii format or in a binary > representation. In general the binary representation is something that's > easier and more efficient to process by machine. I'm not sure what the > array representation looks like though. > > I don't know whether the PHP driver uses binary representations for > anything. If it does it would make things like integers (imperceptibly) > faster and possibly slightly more reliable. In the case of arrays it would > maybe make it easier to code and maybe significantly more efficient. > > It's possible it's already using binary mode for some data types and just > isn't for arrays. But I suspect it isn't. Thanks for your great explanation, but in PHP you always get "strings" from the PostgreSQL module. I guess even the integers are strings, but i am not sure. kind regards, janning
