From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200303110244.h2B2i1j15763@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign
In-Reply-To: <1942.1047350265@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:44:01 -0500 (EST)
Cc: Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>,
	pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > I was willing to add a hack to enable default column labels to be
> > "table.column" --- that seemed like the least obtrusive.
> 
> Most of the definitional issues still apply: which table name are you
> going to insert, and under what conditions?
> 
> If we're revising the protocol, there's no reason to hack up the column
> label to carry two pieces of info; it'd be cleaner to provide a separate
> slot in the T message to carry the table name.  I just want to see a
> reasonably complete spec for what the feature is supposed to do, before
> we buy into it ...

I don't think we can get a complete spec, and hence the _hack_ idea.  :-)

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