Re: [HACKERS] Adding nullable indicator to Describe

2010-11-16 Thread Tom Lane
Chris Forno writes: > I'd like to add information about whether or not a parameter or result can > potentially be NULL to the RowDescription message. There is noplace to put that without a FE/BE protocol break; and it's not worth it by itself. This is one of a number of things that we'll probabl

[HACKERS] Adding nullable indicator to Describe

2010-11-16 Thread Chris Forno
I'd like to add information about whether or not a parameter or result can potentially be NULL to the RowDescription message. Reason: I have the same reasons that Richard Jones did in 2006 ( http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-interfaces/2006-01/msg00043.php). I'm writing a Haskell library that d