Re: OO Patch

> The current API would not change. New APIs would be added. One option is
> just add PQnfieldsv(result, tuple_number) to find the number of fields
> in a particular tuple.
> 
> But then we started discussing postgres' lack of streaming result sets
> and how we might rectify that at the same time.
> 
> And then it was discussed that PQ will be thrown out in favour of Corba
> anyway.
> 
> And then I couldn't figure out where the project is heading, so I didn't
> know what to work on, so I didn't. I want to know up front if PQ is
> disappearing in favour of Corba or not.

OK, there are no plans to change PQ anytime soon.  What someone may do
is to implement a CORBA network service that interacts with PostgreSQL.

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