Re: Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign

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: Kevin Brown <kevin(at)sysexperts(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign
Date: 2003-05-25 03:19:56
Message-ID: 200305250319.h4P3Jur28327@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Added to TODO:
>
> > * Allow clients to get data types, typmod, schema.table.column names from
> > result sets, either via the backend protocol or a new QUERYINFO command
>
> Uh ... this is already done, at least as far as the protocol is
> concerned. We do need to backfill support in libpq, etc.

Oh, really. That is great. I didn't realize you had handled that. I
will update the TODO:

* Update clients to use data types, typmod, schema.table.column names of
result sets using new query protocol

I assume we will need new libpq functions?

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