Re: OO Patch

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, Chris Bitmead <chrisb(at)nimrod(dot)itg(dot)telstra(dot)com(dot)au>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Chris <chris(at)bitmead(dot)com>, Postgres Hackers List <hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: OO Patch
Date: 2000-05-19 23:19:38
Message-ID: 200005192319.TAA23678@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> writes:
> >> Certainly libpq is unprepared to support
> >> multiple tuple types returned in one SELECT
>
> > IIRC Bruce removed that feature in Pg95 days claiming that it would
> > not be needed. If backend starts to support it again it would be
> > relatively easy to put back in.
>
> Would it? libpq's internals might not care much, but it seems to me
> that a rather significant API change would be needed, thus risking
> breaking client applications. I'd want to see how the libpq API
> changes before deciding how easy or hard this is ...

Since this came up, I don't remember removing any of this. I may have
given the OK to do it, though.

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