Re: Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > I was willing to add a hack to enable default column labels to be
> > "table.column" --- that seemed like the least obtrusive.
> 
> Most of the definitional issues still apply: which table name are you
> going to insert, and under what conditions?
> 
> If we're revising the protocol, there's no reason to hack up the column
> label to carry two pieces of info; it'd be cleaner to provide a separate
> slot in the T message to carry the table name.  I just want to see a
> reasonably complete spec for what the feature is supposed to do, before
> we buy into it ...

I don't think we can get a complete spec, and hence the _hack_ idea.  :-)

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