Subject Re: [Firebird-Architect] RFC: Cross database queries
Author Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
Jim Starkey escreveu:
> Roman Rokytskyy wrote:
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>>> We also need a way to pass strings of unknown length.
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>> Isn't that limitation of the remote protocol handler?
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> The remote protocol sends all strings as counted strings.
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> How do you send a string of unknown length?
We need a way to describe strings (not length constrained)... As Alex
said, this requires that we allocate memory for SQLVAR's instead of let
the user always do it.

In the remote protocol, a string is sent using blr_text/cstring/varying,
with the length - I see no problem here.


Adriano