Re: PQdeleteTuple function in libpq

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:24 AM, Pavel Golub <pavel(at)microolap(dot)com> wrote:
> MM> well, you have PQaddTuple, but this was exposed mainly for the purpose
> MM> of building a PQresult from outside the libpq library -- not so much
> MM> to remove the 'constness' property of the PGResult.  I have no
> MM> philosophical objection to making the PGresult able to be manipulated
> MM> in that fashion (although others might).
>
> From this point of view why we have PQmakeEmptyPGresult, PQcopyResult,
> PQsetResultAttrs, PQsetvalue and PQresultAlloc? If we have these
> functions I suppose we must have one more to delete (or hide) some
> tuples/attributes.

These functions were basically supported for libpqtypes -- a libpq
wrapping library that needed to be able to construct a result outside
of libpq...libpqtypes uses the result api to expose arrays and
composite types sent over the wire from the server. However, once
generated the result is basically immutable.

merlin