Re: OO Patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: OO Patch
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Msg-id 6530.958712991@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: OO Patch  (Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au>)
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Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au> writes:
> 3) Returning of sub-class fields. Any ODBMS *must* do this by
> definition. If it doesn't, it isn't an ODBMS.

Chris, you have a bad habit of defining away the problem.  Not
everyone is convinced upon this point, and your assertions that
there was consensus don't help your cause.

Possibly more to the point: your patch doesn't implement the
above behavior AFAICS.  (Certainly libpq is unprepared to support
multiple tuple types returned in one SELECT --- and there are no
frontend changes in your patch.)  So it might help if you'd clarify
exactly what the proposed patch does and doesn't do.
        regards, tom lane


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