So, just to throw out a wild idea: If you're talking about making large changes to the on-the-wire protocol. Have you considered using an existing database protocol? This would avoid having to reinvent the wheel every time postgres implements a new feature like prepared queries, bind arrays, or metadata information.
There is a free implementation of the TDS (Tabular DataStream) protocol used by Sybase and MSSQL. I don't know how much of it would be interesting for postgres and how much is Sybase/MSSQL-specific. It would be pretty neat if postgres could use precisely the same on-the-wire protocol as other major databases, just requiring a separate high level driver to interpret the semantic meaning of the data. At the very least it sounds like interesting to do a compare and contrast as far as understanding what advantages the features TDS has have and what disadvantages, before postgres possibly misses good ideas or makes the same mistakes. -- greg ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
