[DB-SIG] Type code mappings: expanding the type objects

[Federico Di Gregorio]

Il gio, 2004-01-08 alle 14:00, M.-A. Lemburg ha scritto:
[snip]
> > products to be more standards compliant.
> 
> In that case, perhaps BOOLEAN should be at top-level ?!

i vote for making it top-level.

[snip]
> mxODBC let's you set a flag to one of these values:
> * always return 8-bit strings (in the database encoding)
> * allow the database to decide whether or not to send Unicode
> * always return Unicode (with 8-bit strings decoded according
>    to an encoding you set on the connection; unfortunately,
>    there's no easy way to read the database default encoding)

sounds good and i would like to see something like that standarized in
the DBAPI. currently psycopg uses the encoding parameter of the
connection to set the "client_encoding" variable but stops there.

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