Re: PostgreSQL roadmap for 8.2 and beyond.

/me has started working on hierarchical query support that I'd like to get
into 8.2.

On 10/17/05, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>
> Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com> writes:
> > On 17-Oct-05, at 1:43 PM, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> >> ISTM them that the RETURNING patch as given solves your problem
> >> nicely.
>
> > Well, the driver still needs to know ahead of time which columns are
> > going to be autogenerated.
>
> Possibly you could define that as "all columns that are not specified in
> the INSERT command and have column default expressions". The first is
> knowable with very little parsing of the command, and the second can be
> learned from the catalog metadata that you're probably reading anyway.
>
> If the JDBC spec has a more specific definition of "autogenerated" than
> "has a default", then what is it?
>
> regards, tom lane
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Respectfully,

Jonah H. Harris, Database Internals Architect
EnterpriseDB Corporation
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