John R Pierce wrote: > yah, seriously. the binary protocol is not considered stable, it can > change in subtle ways in each version. libpq handles the current > version and all previous versions, and exposes all methods. That's probably not the problem in the original message, but there are things you can do with the frontend/backend protocol that libpq does not expose: for example, with the extended query protocol you can send a "Bind" call that requests that some of the results should be returned in text format, others in binary. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general