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Re: OO Patch

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Chris <chris@bitmead.com>, Postgres Hackers List <hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-05-19T05:09:51Z
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Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au> writes:
> 3) Returning of sub-class fields. Any ODBMS *must* do this by
> definition. If it doesn't, it isn't an ODBMS.

Chris, you have a bad habit of defining away the problem.  Not
everyone is convinced upon this point, and your assertions that
there was consensus don't help your cause.

Possibly more to the point: your patch doesn't implement the
above behavior AFAICS.  (Certainly libpq is unprepared to support
multiple tuple types returned in one SELECT --- and there are no
frontend changes in your patch.)  So it might help if you'd clarify
exactly what the proposed patch does and doesn't do.

			regards, tom lane