From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: retrieving varchar size
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:52:44 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <199804271452.KAA04993@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4148.893687967@sss.pgh.pa.us>
>
> Does what you describe actually work in the current backend?
>
> The problem on the libpq side is basically that the PGresult structure
> is not able to represent more than one tuple descriptor. AFAICS, we can't
> tamper with that without breaking all existing applications. However,
> if we make the changes being discussed in this thread then it would be
> a simple matter to return a *series* of PGresult structures for this
> sort of query.
>
> Whether an application is capable of handling that is another story,
> but at least the data could be passed through.
>
I would move forward, and see if anything breaks. If the regression
tests pass, that is a good sign it works.
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