Aaron Mulder wrote:
Barry,
Are you saying that the server returns everything as
strings/characters no matter what? Like if it sends the number "123456"
that will be 7 bytes (6+null), not 4 bytes (an int)? Can we make it send
the 4-byte int value instead?
That is correct. The FE/BE protocol sends the data back and forth as
strings for all the data types. The only exception to this is if you
are using a 'binary cursor' inwhich case the data is sent in binary,
(however the byte order is platform dependent, which makes it a pain to
use binary cursors).
--Barry
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