From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199804271454.KAA05021@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [INTERFACES] retrieving varchar size
To: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us (Tom Lane)
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:54:13 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org, pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
In-Reply-To: <4165.893688093@sss.pgh.pa.us> from "Tom Lane" at Apr 27,
	98 10:41:33 am
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> 
> Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > OK, you just need to remember to throw away any un-called-for results if
> > they do another PQexec without retrieving all the results returned by
> > the backend.
> 
> OK, so you feel the right behavior is "throw away unconsumed results"
> and not "raise an error"?
> 
> I don't have a strong feeling either way; I'm just asking what the
> consensus is.

Throw them away.  That is what we have always done, and if they wanted
them, they wouldn't have put them all in one pgexec().

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