Re: OO Patch

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Cc: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Chris <chris@bitmead.com>, Postgres Hackers List <hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2000-05-19T23:19:38Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

> Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee> writes:
> >> Certainly libpq is unprepared to support
> >> multiple tuple types returned in one SELECT 
> 
> > IIRC Bruce removed that feature in Pg95 days claiming that it would 
> > not be needed. If backend starts to support it again it would be 
> > relatively easy to put back in.
> 
> Would it?  libpq's internals might not care much, but it seems to me
> that a rather significant API change would be needed, thus risking
> breaking client applications.  I'd want to see how the libpq API
> changes before deciding how easy or hard this is ...

Since this came up, I don't remember removing any of this.  I may have
given the OK to do it, though.

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