Subject: Re: dynamic result sets support in extended query protocol
To: Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@sraoss.co.jp>
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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com>
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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2020 09:31:33 +0200
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On 2020-10-08 10:23, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
> Are you proposing to bump up the protocol version (either major or
> minor)?  I am asking because it seems you are going to introduce some
> new message types.

It wouldn't be a new major version.  It could either be a new minor 
version, or it would be guarded by a _pq_ protocol message to enable 
this functionality from the client, as described.  Or both?  We haven't 
done this sort of thing a lot, so some discussion on the details might 
be necessary.

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