> -----Original Message----- > From: Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 13 March 2003 17:07 > To: Hiroshi Inoue; Dave Page > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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.
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