> What's bothering me right now is the
> difference between client and server encodings.  It seems that the
only
> plausible use for octet_length is to do memory allocation on the
client
> side, and for that purpose the length ought to be measured in the
client
> encoding.  People seem to be happy with letting octet_length take the
> easy way out (measure in the server encoding), and I'm trying to get
> someone to explain to me why that's the right behavior.  I 
> don't see it.

I agree. octet_length should be the number of bytes the client gets when
he 
does "select textfield from atable".

Andreas

Mon, 19 Nov 2001 20:02:11 +0100
"Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at>
Re: OCTET_LENGTH is wrong 