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On Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 4:07:27 AM UTC-6, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
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> No DB bindings I know deploy bounded-length strings.

Isn't that a failing of those bindings?
(Just like we could have a thin C-binding which used return codes.)