Re: OIDS (Re: [HACKERS] Well, then you keep your darn columns)

> Hannu Krosing wrote:
>
> > > You are saying that you used to be able to get full tuples from postgres
> > > if you selected from base* ??? In other words I select * from base, and
> > > I can get back the fields in an inherited class too?
> > >
> > > I have followed postgres from way back before the 'net started hacking
> > > on it, and I've never come across this (but I desperately want it).
> >
> > Here is how I remember it:
> >
> > At least the wire protocol supports it and also libpq used to support it,
> > until at about time of postgres95/postgreSQL it was removed from libpq as
> > "unneeded" (by Bruce IIRC).
>
> Bruce, you scoundrel! :-)
>
> > until that time it should have theoretically been possible to return tuples
> > of several types and sizes, either by using "select * from base* " or unions
> > or functions in backend.
>

I have no idea what this was. I could have removed it, but I don't
remember anything about this.

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