Re: Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0303120107410.1617-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign  ("Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>)
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Dave Page writes:

> I don't know about JDBC, but ODBC could use it, and it would save a heck
> of a lot of pain in apps like pgAdmin that need to figure out if a column
> in an arbitrary resultset might be updateable.

Strictly speaking, result sets are never updatable, because there's no way
you can refer to a result set and tell the system to update it.  So let's
hear what you *really* need and then consider interfaces for *that*.
Maybe updatable views or updatable cursors?

-- 
Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net



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