David Rysdam <drysdam@ll.mit.edu> writes:
> To be honest, this is almost enough to drive me away from PG. But I
> like everything else about it, so I could perhaps give a patch a whirl.
> Or are there underlying server reasons why this won't work?
Have you bothered to read the preceding discussion you were pointed at?
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-interfaces/2005-11/index.php
regards, tom lane
