> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD [mailto:ZeugswetterA@spardat.at] 
> Sent: 13 March 2003 17:07
> To: Hiroshi Inoue; Dave Page
> Cc: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us; pgman@candle.pha.pa.us; 
> pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: RE: [HACKERS] Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign
>
> 
> If this where at the protocol level, the client could flag 
> what info is wanted, and thus avoid all unwanted overhead. 

But the client usually won't know at that point. For example, an ODBC
app executes a query and reads the tuples returned. After that has
occured, the app calls SQLDescribeCol to describe a column in the
resultset...

Regards, Dave.
Thu, 13 Mar 2003 19:27:38 -0000
"Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
Re: Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign