From: Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
Cc: Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD <ZeugswetterA@spardat.at>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 15:29:38 +0900
Message-ID: <3E702552.DA8A29A9@tpf.co.jp> (raw)
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:
> > No, but with them we can avoid cluttering the wire protocol with fields
> > for all this, and the JDBC required data. With 2 numeric columns
> > (attrelid, attnum), any application/interface can query the system
> > catalogs easily for whatever extra info they like.
>
> This is my feeling also. We shouldn't try to guess in the protocol
> exactly what set of information will be wanted by a frontend; we should
> just provide the catalog keys needed to look up whatever is wanted.
Does looking up by the catalog keys take no cost ?
regards,
Hiroshi Inoue
http://www.geocities.jp/inocchichichi/psqlodbc/
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