[HACKERS] V3 protocol; way to return table aliases?

2007-01-29 Thread Ken Johanson
Hi all, I think I've heard the answer to this in another list, but I just want to get the widest audience and set of opinions, to be sure.. Apparently right now the V3 protocol doesn't return table-aliases for columns, like: select employee.firstName, boss.firstName from contacts as employee, c

[HACKERS] V4 protocol, extensible?

2007-01-04 Thread Ken Johanson
In another thread I was made aware that current protocol may not be easily extensible (if at all), and so the backend-data a certain driver needs may not be so easily added. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/protocol-message-formats.html So if there is not already a roadmap for thi