Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> 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.
So are you voting against adding any attribute-ID info to
RowDescription? While I'm not that thrilled with it myself, it seems
relatively harmless as long as we can keep the overhead down. I'm
okay with attrelid/attnum, but would gripe about including more than that.
You're probably right that updatable cursors would be a nicer solution
in the long run, but I don't really see that happening in the next
release or two.
regards, tom lane
