Re: Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign

From: "Hiroshi Inoue" <inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: "'Christopher Kings-Lynne'" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: "'Dave Page'" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>, <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, <pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign
Date: 2003-03-13 15:05:22
Message-ID: 000301c2e971$f9d57f50$0e283ddb@PbgX
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Kings-Lynne [mailto:chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au]
>
> > > Obviously there is cost, but doing a lookup only on
> demand, has got to be
> > > cheaper in the long run than including the entire column
> definition in the
> > > message whether it's wanted or not?
> >
> > So if there are 100 fields, should we ask the backend
> > the column name 100 times ?
>
> No, you do a single select that returns 100 results...

Does a single select mean a fast select ?

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue

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