Re: [GENERAL] Proposed Changes to PostgreSQL

I can live with this. Thanks.

> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > > I already have a patch for this one. The change is a few pretty simple
> > > changes
> > > to gram.y.
> >
> > OK, you will have to canvas the general list to make sure this does not
> > break things for people, though our inheritance system needs an overhaul
> > badly.
>
> This is already CCed to the general list.
>
> > I fear it is totally against the way our API works. How does someone
> > see how many columns in the returned row?
>
> A new API PQnfieldsv(PQresult, tupnum) or some such.
>
> > Yikes. Strange.
>
> Strange for C code perhaps. Very useful for constructing real objects in
> OO application code framework.
>
> > Can we just return nulls for the empty fields?
>
> Well, I think we should probably distinguish between a field that is
> null,
> and a field that simply doesn't exist.
>
> > How many new API calls are required?
>
> Perhaps just the one. (above).
>

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