dle binary cursors and expect data to come back in the text
   format.
  </P
><DIV
CLASS="NOTE"
><BLOCKQUOTE
CLASS="NOTE"
><P
><B
>Note: </B
>    When the client application uses the <SPAN
CLASS="QUOTE"
>"extended query"</SPAN
> protocol
    to issue a <TT
CLASS="COMMAND"
>FETCH</TT
> command, the Bind protocol message
    specifies whether data is to be retrieved in text or binary format.
    This choice overrides the way that the cursor is defined.  The concept
    of a binary cursor as such is thus obsol