Re: row description for domain in 7.4

On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 11:22 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

>
> By my count you're in the minority --- there was no one lobbying
> for reporting domain OIDs in the previous threads, and at least
> two people strongly in favor of not doing so. While I don't have
> a strong opinion about it myself, I don't have the interest to
> make the behavior configurable, unless you can get some more votes
> for your position.
>
>

If I understand the change correctly, won't this break existing clients
that use the previous behavior (even if they don't use the 3.0
protocol)? Since few people are using 7.4, I don't expect I'll get any
more votes unless things start breaking down the road (when it will be
too late to change anything).

No hard feelings about it, but I'm really surprised existing behavior
will be broken when the technical reasons for changing it were so weak.
Did I mis-analyze the situation in the previous email? Is it not just
one query to the database to get the base type compared to a lot more
effort to get the domain?

Thanks,

John DeSoi, Ph.D.