Re: [Npgsql-general] Get function OID and function calling support - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Francisco Figueiredo Jr.
Subject Re: [Npgsql-general] Get function OID and function calling support
Date
Msg-id 20030107204520.94917.qmail@web14102.mail.yahoo.com
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In response to Re: [Npgsql-general] Get function OID and function calling support  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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--- Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> escreveu: 
> "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> writes:
> > Sorry, don't know. Can anyone on pgsql-hackers tell us the purpose of
> > the FunctionCall message?
> 
> It's used to invoke the "fast path" function call code
> (src/backend/tcop/fastpath.c).  libpq's large-object routines use this,
> but little else does AFAIK.  The current protocol is sufficiently broken
> (see comments in fastpath.c) that I'd not really encourage people to use
> it until we can fix it --- hopefully that will happen in 7.4.

Ok, as Kristis already said about how functions are being commonly called, I
will implement it this way: transforming the function call into a "select
<function_name>" statement. I already have some working code and I will clean
it and commit it soon.

Thanks all!


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Regards,
Francisco Figueiredo Jr.

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