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Subject: query interface
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   From: Deborah Swanberg <deborah@citi.umich.edu>

   I'm interested in developing a code structured, rather than
   string structured, interface to Postgres for submitting queries.
   It doesn't quite make sense to me that my interface should 
   have to translate data structures to string, and then that Postgres 
   should have to translate from string to data structures.
   A code structured interface would require interfacing at a
   lower level to Postgres.

   Comments?

Why bother? Having a well defined interface, like the query strings,
really buys you a lot, for debugging and ease of program changes.
The cycles wasted in assembling a command and parsing it is not an
issue on a modern workstation.

..of course this was not what you would like to hear, so good luck.

/Tommy Thorn