On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 12:46, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Dave Page writes:
>
> > Well what I *really* need has been made quite clear in other posts, but,
> > when I say resultset in the same sentence as pgAdmin, I'm referring to
> > the ability to enter an arbitrary SQL query, have the results displayed
> > in a grid, which can then be editted. To do this pgAdmin needs to be
> > able to figure out enough info about the source of the data to generate
> > the required insert/update/delete statements.
>
> Right. But since you can't really write a literal SQL statement that does
> an update that refers to a previous query, you are already doing a fair
> amount of internal magic anyway, so if the meta-data is determined by
> magic as well, that seems consistent.
>
> What you need is an updateable cursor on the server side. It has all the
> facilities you need, including standardized ways to find out the
> updatability metadata. Please concentrate on that and do not attempt to
> clutter the wire protocol with data that will not withstand a throrough
> investigation of semantics.
And I have offered to pay for this work to be done. Someone?
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Dave Cramer <dave@fastcrypt.com>
Cramer Consulting
