From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Upgrading the backend's error-message infrastructure
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 12:59:12 -0500
Message-ID: <21237.1047837552@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Tom Lane writes:
>> Given that we now need order-of-thirty possible field types, do you feel
>> uncomfortable with a single-byte field identifier in the FE/BE protocol?
> There's a possible solution: SQL99 part 3 defines numerical codes for
> each of these fields (table 12/section 5.14). The codes are between
> around 0 and 40.
Hmm. I can't see any advantage to these over assigning our own codes;
ours would have at least *some* mnemonic value, rather than being chosen
completely at random ...
regards, tom lane
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