From: Michael Meskes <meskes@topsystem.de>
Message-Id: <199804290835.KAA05842@gauss.topsystem.de>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Revised proposal for libpq and FE/BE protocol changes
In-Reply-To: <7040.893780515@sss.pgh.pa.us> from Tom Lane at "Apr 28,
	98 12:21:55 pm"
To: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us (Tom Lane)
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 10:35:31 +0200 (CEST)
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org (PostgreSQL Hacker)
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Tom Lane writes:
> I propose to revise libpq and modify the frontend/backend protocol
> to provide the following benefits:
>  * Provide a clean way of reading multiple results from a single query
>    string.  Among other things, this solves the problem of allowing a
>    single query to return several result sets with different descriptors.

Does this mean I can read in a complete C array with one call? I mean
something like this:

char emp_name[10][10];

exec sql select name into :emp_name from emp;

But then I didn't see anything like this in your examples. Do I have to
iterate using PQgetResult then?

Michael
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