Re: Postgres provider to use gda-srv lib

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo linuxave net>]

Vivien Malerba wrote:
> 
> On jeu, 06 jui 2000, you wrote:
> > Vivien Malerba wrote:
> > >
> > > On jeu, 06 jui 2000, you wrote:
> > > > I'm worried about data corruption.  Let's say that data comes out, and it's
> > > > actually structured data of some kind.  It gets turned into a varchar, then
> > > > re-inserted into the database.  Because it was structured somehow (probably
> > > > with binary data) the locale settings could cause different data to be
> > > > re-inserted.
> > > >
> > > > I'd like to float the idea of an undefined raw-data type for these cases,
> > > > where the user has to define some kind of translation for themselves.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Yes, you have a point here! It looks a nice idea to define a data type which
> > > means that it is unknown so the user knows that when he gets a varvhar, it
> > > really is a varchar. If he gets that data type, he can still then consider
> > > it as varchar if he wants so. Why not TypeUnknown ?
> >
> > I don't know if this is a stupid idea but CORBA has the Any type which
> > is
> > the type that you want.
> >
> > -- Alvaro
> 
> IMO we are not talking about CORBA data types but about gnome-db ones,
> which are in fact enumerated in an idl file. So I don't think we could go with
> that CORBA data type.
> 
Yes, that's it. We are talking about GNOME-DB data types, not CORBA
ones. The difference is that gnome-db clients and server now know
nothing about CORBA, so these gnome-db types are the way for both of
them to know in what format the value is being returned/retrieved.