Re: OO Patch

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Chris <chris(at)bitmead(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, Chris Bitmead <chrisb(at)nimrod(dot)itg(dot)telstra(dot)com(dot)au>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Postgres Hackers List <hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: OO Patch
Date: 2000-05-19 23:25:40
Message-ID: 200005192325.TAA23872@candle.pha.pa.us
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> The current API would not change. New APIs would be added. One option is
> just add PQnfieldsv(result, tuple_number) to find the number of fields
> in a particular tuple.
>
> But then we started discussing postgres' lack of streaming result sets
> and how we might rectify that at the same time.
>
> And then it was discussed that PQ will be thrown out in favour of Corba
> anyway.
>
> And then I couldn't figure out where the project is heading, so I didn't
> know what to work on, so I didn't. I want to know up front if PQ is
> disappearing in favour of Corba or not.

OK, there are no plans to change PQ anytime soon. What someone may do
is to implement a CORBA network service that interacts with PostgreSQL.

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