Re: [HACKERS] Revised proposal for libpq and FE/BE protocol changes

From: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)topsystem(dot)de>
To: tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us (Tom Lane)
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org (PostgreSQL Hacker)
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Revised proposal for libpq and FE/BE protocol changes
Date: 1998-04-29 08:35:31
Message-ID: 199804290835.KAA05842@gauss.topsystem.de
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Tom Lane writes:
> I propose to revise libpq and modify the frontend/backend protocol
> to provide the following benefits:
> * Provide a clean way of reading multiple results from a single query
> string. Among other things, this solves the problem of allowing a
> single query to return several result sets with different descriptors.

Does this mean I can read in a complete C array with one call? I mean
something like this:

char emp_name[10][10];

exec sql select name into :emp_name from emp;

But then I didn't see anything like this in your examples. Do I have to
iterate using PQgetResult then?

Michael
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