Re: Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD [mailto:ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at]
> Sent: 13 March 2003 17:07
> To: Hiroshi Inoue; Dave Page
> Cc: tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us; pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us;
> pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign
>
>
> If this where at the protocol level, the client could flag
> what info is wanted, and thus avoid all unwanted overhead.

But the client usually won't know at that point. For example, an ODBC
app executes a query and reads the tuples returned. After that has
occured, the app calls SQLDescribeCol to describe a column in the
resultset...

Regards, Dave.