Re: insert/update/delete statements returning a query response

Stuart,

FE/BE = Frontend/Backend protocol.  It is the over the wire protocol 
Postgres uses to talk to clients (jdbc, odbc, libpq, etc.).

It is documented in the Developers Guide, there is a chapter titled 
"Frontend/Backend Protocol".

thanks,
--Barry

Stuart Robinson wrote:

> What is the FE/BE protocol? (I did a Google search and found references to
> it, but no definitions or explanations.) Thanks. (And apologies if this is
> a stupid RTFM sort of question.)
> 
> -Stuart
> 
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Barry Lind wrote:
> 
> 
>>Is this behavior intended in the backend?  The problem is that when you
>>create a rule on an object that calls a stored function and invoke that
>>rule on an insert/update/delete statement your insert/update/delete
>>statement will now return a query result to the front end over the FE/BE
>>protocol.  (I am not sure this is the exact senerio, but something
>>similar).  This means that the user now needs to perform a
>>executeQuery() call when using these insert/update/delete statements in
>>JDBC because the JDBC driver isn't able to accept a query response when
>>issuing a insert/update/delete call.
>>
>>thanks,
>>--Barry
>>
>