Jasen Betts <jasen@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 2012-05-16, John Townsend <jtownsend@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> *** So...the question: Is there a good reason why you might want to NOT >> use libpq.dll, and just directly access the server through direct >> function calls? *** > libpq binds you to using NUL terminated C strings, and, no doubt, other C > idioms. Note that bypassing libpq will not get you around that one, because the server (and indeed the wire protocol) also use nul-terminated strings. Generally the places where people have chosen to reimplement the protocol from scratch are where they *couldn't* use libpq for some reason or other; for instance the JDBC driver doesn't use libpq because non-Java code is painful to deal with in a Java environment. I'm pretty doubtful that it's worth anybody's trouble to reimplement just to save a layer of function calls. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
