From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199804262255.SAA05889@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [INTERFACES] retrieving varchar size
To: maillist@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian)
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 18:55:09 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org,
	pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
In-Reply-To: <199804262138.RAA04996@candle.pha.pa.us> from "Bruce Momjian" at
	Apr 26, 98 05:38:31 pm
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> > One thing that likely would *not* work very nicely is copy in/out
> > as part of a multi-command query, since there is currently no provision
> > for PQendcopy to return result(s).  This is pretty braindead IMHO,
> > but I'm not sure we can change PQendcopy's API.  Any thoughts?  What


Adding a return result to PQendcopy would not be a big deal.  Just
document it so the few people who do this in application know to free
the result.  The interface libraries can handle the change.


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