Re: Libpq support for precision and scale

Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Fernando Nasser <fnasser(at)redhat(dot)com> writes:
> > We have agreed to add another call to set a flag for including the
> > metadata on the PQexec call (which would make it work like the
> > PQexecIncludeMetadata described above). It will be in the REPOST patch.
>
> That works for me. Among other things, it solves the problem where the
> code that wants the metadata is a layer or two above the place that's
> actually issuing PQexec. Setting a persistent option in the PGconn
> object gets around the difficulty that the caller of PQexec may not know
> metadata will be wanted later.
>
> > Question: should it affect only the next PQexec(), or should we require
> > the user to reset it?
>
> It should be persistent till reset, see above.
>

Agreed.

> > An even worse problem is that
> > it'll fail entirely with a multi-query query string.
>
> I'm still quite unhappy about this; it more or less destroys the layer
> independence mentioned above. Please think harder. Perhaps it could
> be set up so that metadata is only collected for the last result of a
> query string, after you determine that there are no more results?
> Which is still not great, but better than failing outright with
> multi-query strings.
>

I will look into doing like you suggest.

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