Re: [HACKERS] Re: [INTERFACES] retrieving varchar size

On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

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> > I think for libpq, that would be a good idea, but it would mean that there
> > is a difference in behaviour between the interfaces.
> >
> > The JDBC spec allows for multiple ResultSet's to be returned from a query,
> > and our driver handles this already.
>
> Oh. That prevents us from changing the backend to ignore returning more
> than one result for multiple queries in a PQexec. Perhaps we need a new
> return query protocol character like 'J' to denote query returns that
> are not the LAST return, so libpq can throw them away, and jdbc and
> process them as normal, but also figure out when it gets the last one.

That should be easy enough to implement.

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