Tom Lane wrote:
>
> "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk> 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 ?
regards,
Hiroshi Inouehttp://www.geocities.jp/inocchichichi/psqlodbc/
