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To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org, pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [INTERFACES] retrieving varchar size 
In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 26 Apr 1998 19:41:33 -0400 (EDT)
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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 10:41:33 -0400
Message-ID: <4165.893688093@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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.

			regards, tom lane