Re: [HACKERS] Revised proposal for libpq and FE/BE protocol changes
Michael Meskes <meskes@topsystem.de>
From: Michael Meskes <meskes@topsystem.de>
To: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us (Tom Lane)
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org (PostgreSQL Hacker)
Date: 1998-04-29T08:35:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane writes: > I propose to revise libpq and modify the frontend/backend protocol > to provide the following benefits: > * Provide a clean way of reading multiple results from a single query > string. Among other things, this solves the problem of allowing a > single query to return several result sets with different descriptors. Does this mean I can read in a complete C array with one call? I mean something like this: char emp_name[10][10]; exec sql select name into :emp_name from emp; But then I didn't see anything like this in your examples. Do I have to iterate using PQgetResult then? Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager | topsystem Systemhaus GmbH meskes@topsystem.de | Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20 meskes@debian.org | 52146 Wuerselen Go SF49ers! Go Rhein Fire! | Tel: (+49) 2405/4670-44 Use Debian GNU/Linux! | Fax: (+49) 2405/4670-10