Dave Page wrote: > > It's rumoured that Hiroshi Inoue once said: > > Tom Lane wrote: > >> > >> "Dave Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > No, but with them we can avoid cluttering the wire protocol with > >> > fields for all this, and the JDBC required data. With 2 numeric > >> > columns (attrelid, attnum), any application/interface can query the > >> > system catalogs easily for whatever extra info they like. > >> > >> This is my feeling also. We shouldn't try to guess in the protocol > >> exactly what set of information will be wanted by a frontend; we > >> should just provide the catalog keys needed to look up whatever is > >> wanted. > > > > Does looking up by the catalog keys take no cost ? > > Obviously there is cost, but doing a lookup only on demand, has got to be > cheaper in the long run than including the entire column definition in the > message whether it's wanted or not? So if there are 100 fields, should we ask the backend the column name 100 times ? regards, Hiroshi Inoue http://www.geocities.jp/inocchichichi/psqlodbc/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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