Re: DB API

2000-12-18 Thread Dave Peticolas
Derek Atkins writes: > > An alternative approach: add to the Query object a "max return" value, > so that a client can set the 'max number of Splits to return'. Then > we don't necessarily need two RPCs; perhaps the Query RPC can return > the actual number of matching splits, even though it only

Re: DB API

2000-12-18 Thread Derek Atkins
Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > CORBA would definitely support this sort of thing; probably the > preferable approach would be to pass around sets of information as > "sequences," which are usually represented as arrays of whatever > structure is being referenced. > > If we have

DB API

2000-12-18 Thread Christopher Browne
On 18 Dec 2000 13:20:17 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Gribble) writes: > > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 01:00:56PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > > > This is a reasonable approach, although I think we still want (need?) > > > t