Hi,
On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 18:50, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > Hi, > > On 2019-06-05 18:47:57 -0400, Dave Cramer wrote: > > So one of the things they would like added is to get not null information > > in the schema record. This is so they can mark the field Optional in > Java. > > I presume this would also have some uses in other languages. As I > > understand it this would require a protocol bump. If this were to be > > accepted are there any outstanding asks that would useful to add if we > were > > going to bump the protocol? > > I'm pretty strongly opposed to this. What's the limiting factor when > adding such information? I think clients that want something like this > ought to query the database for catalog information when getting schema > information. > I'm not intimately familiar with their code. I will query them more about the ask. I am curious why you are "strongly" opposed however. We already have the information. Adding doesn't seem onerous. Dave
