Re: Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign

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

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Kevin Brown <kevin@sysexperts.com>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-05-25T03:19:56Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Added to TODO:
> 
> > * Allow clients to get data types, typmod, schema.table.column names from
> >   result sets, either via the backend protocol or a new QUERYINFO command
> 
> Uh ... this is already done, at least as far as the protocol is
> concerned.  We do need to backfill support in libpq, etc.

Oh, really.  That is great.  I didn't realize you had handled that. I
will update the TODO:

* Update clients to use data types, typmod, schema.table.column names of
  result sets using new query protocol

I assume we will need new libpq functions?

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