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Re: OO Patch

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

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Chris <chris@bitmead.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Postgres Hackers List <hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-05-19T23:25:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> The current API would not change. New APIs would be added. One option is
> just add PQnfieldsv(result, tuple_number) to find the number of fields
> in a particular tuple.
> 
> But then we started discussing postgres' lack of streaming result sets
> and how we might rectify that at the same time.
> 
> And then it was discussed that PQ will be thrown out in favour of Corba
> anyway.
> 
> And then I couldn't figure out where the project is heading, so I didn't
> know what to work on, so I didn't. I want to know up front if PQ is
> disappearing in favour of Corba or not.

OK, there are no plans to change PQ anytime soon.  What someone may do
is to implement a CORBA network service that interacts with PostgreSQL.

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