Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 10:49:07 -0700
From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Dave Cramer <davecramer@postgres.rocks>
Cc: Jack Christensen <jack@jncsoftware.com>, Shay Rojansky <roji@roji.org>,
	Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>,
	pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>,
	Vladimir Sitnikov <sitnikov.vladimir@gmail.com>,
	Mark Paluch <mpaluch@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: dynamic result sets support in extended query protocol
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Hi,

On 2020-10-20 20:17:45 -0400, Dave Cramer wrote:
> You are correct we are not talking about a whole new protocol, but why not ?
> Seems to me we would have a lot more latitude to get it right if we didn't
> have this limitation.

A new protocol will face a much bigger adoption hurdle, and there's much
stuff that we'll want to do that we'll have a hard time ever getting off
the ground. Whereas opt-in extensions are much easier to get off the ground.

Greetings,

Andres Freund