From: | "Henry B(dot) Hotz" <hotz(at)jpl(dot)nasa(dot)gov> |
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To: | Chris Bitmead <chris(at)bitmead(dot)com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Adriaan Joubert <a(dot)joubert(at)albourne(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: OIDS (Re: [HACKERS] Well, then you keep your darn columns) |
Date: | 2000-01-27 02:09:14 |
Message-ID: | v04020a0cb4b558df28de@[137.78.84.130] |
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At 5:47 PM -0800 1/26/00, Chris Bitmead wrote:
>Hannu Krosing wrote:
>
>> An we could re-introduce the ability to get full tuples for select * from
>> base*;
>>
>> We used to have it but cuurently it is at lest discouraged and probably
>> unsupported
>> in libpq;
>
>You are saying that you used to be able to get full tuples from postgres
>if you selected from base* ??? In other words I select * from base, and
>I can get back the fields in an inherited class too?
>
>I have followed postgres from way back before the 'net started hacking
>on it, and I've never come across this (but I desperately want it).
I could swear that this was one of the examples given to distinguish
Postgres from an ordinary RDBMS. I never tried the feature though.
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