Re: OIDS (Re: [HACKERS] Well, then you keep your darn columns) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Henry B. Hotz
Subject Re: OIDS (Re: [HACKERS] Well, then you keep your darn columns)
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In response to Re: OIDS (Re: [HACKERS] Well, then you keep your darn columns)  (Chris Bitmead <chris@bitmead.com>)
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At 5:47 PM -0800 1/26/00, Chris Bitmead wrote:
>Hannu Krosing wrote:
>
>> An we could re-introduce the ability to get full tuples for select * from
>> base*;
>>
>> We used to have it but cuurently it is at lest discouraged and probably
>> unsupported
>> in libpq;
>
>You are saying that you used to be able to get full tuples from postgres
>if you selected from base* ??? In other words I select * from base, and
>I can get back the fields in an inherited class too?
>
>I have followed postgres from way back before the 'net started hacking
>on it, and I've never come across this (but I desperately want it).

I could swear that this was one of the examples given to distinguish
Postgres from an ordinary RDBMS.  I never tried the feature though.

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