Re: PL/Python result metadata

Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>

From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndQuadrant.fr>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-01-11T21:52:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> .colnames() returns a list of column names (strings)
> .coltypes() returns a list of type OIDs (integers)
>
> I just made that up because there is no guidance in the other standard
> PLs for this sort of thing, AFAICT.

What about having the same or comparable API as in psycopg or DB API

  http://initd.org/psycopg/docs/cursor.html

You could expose a py.description structure?
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Dimitri Fontaine
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