| From: | Chris Bitmead <chrisb(at)nimrod(dot)itg(dot)telstra(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | chris(at)bitmead(dot)com, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Proposed Changes to PostgreSQL |
| Date: | 2000-02-03 03:48:46 |
| Message-ID: | 3898FA9E.22D33715@nimrod.itg.telecom.com.au |
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I already have a patch for this one. The change is a few pretty simple
> > changes
> > to gram.y.
>
> OK, you will have to canvas the general list to make sure this does not
> break things for people, though our inheritance system needs an overhaul
> badly.
This is already CCed to the general list.
> I fear it is totally against the way our API works. How does someone
> see how many columns in the returned row?
A new API PQnfieldsv(PQresult, tupnum) or some such.
> Yikes. Strange.
Strange for C code perhaps. Very useful for constructing real objects in
OO application code framework.
> Can we just return nulls for the empty fields?
Well, I think we should probably distinguish between a field that is
null,
and a field that simply doesn't exist.
> How many new API calls are required?
Perhaps just the one. (above).
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