Tom Lane wrote:
> Oliver Jowett <oliver@opencloud.com> writes:
>
>>Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>>>>How can clients distinguish multiple resultsets if they're using the
>>>>extended query protocol?
>>>
>>>You'll get multiple repetitions of RowDescription/DataRows.
>
>
>>Ah, so the Execute spontaneously generates a RowDescription
>>spontaneously when it hits the second resultset, without needing an
>>extra Describe?
>
>
> Oh, wait, you won't get anything. My example was using simple-Query
> protocol. In extended Query you get nothing, per this comment in
> pquery.c:
Ok, thanks. It looks like the driver is doing the right thing then.
Here's a one-line patch that clarifies the Execute protocol docs slightly.
-O
Index: doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml
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*** doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml 16 Aug 2004 02:12:29 -0000 1.53
--- doc/src/sgml/protocol.sgml 23 Sep 2004 23:02:43 -0000
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*** 747,753 ****
The possible
responses to Execute are the same as those described above for queries
issued via simple query protocol, except that Execute doesn't cause
! ReadyForQuery to be issued.
</para>
<para>
--- 747,753 ----
The possible
responses to Execute are the same as those described above for queries
issued via simple query protocol, except that Execute doesn't cause
! ReadyForQuery or RowDescription to be issued.
</para>
<para>
