Re: new interface

On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 10:30, Reggie Burnett wrote:
> Let me see if I can add more information here.  PSQL appears to only
> retrieve table metadata when \d is given.  For my interface, I will need
> the ability to present every column as a proper system object (int, byte
> array, currency, etc) depending on the db type.  I will not be able to
> wait for the user of my interface to execute a method before retrieving
> this data so I will need to automatically retrieve it every time.

> Having looked at the query issued by \d in PSQL, it would seem that I
> would need to issue that same query for every column in my select.  I
> say that because it contains a join of pg_class and pg_attribute.

Something like that I would suspect.

But if they're arbitrary selects, how are you going to handle:

SELECT CAST(32 AS text);

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