Re: Array question

On Sep 8, 2009, at 11:05 AM, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:

> Right. I looked into this some time back, and made a rough proof of  
> concept,
> but there was some big problem I ran into. Cannot remember at the  
> moment
> what it was. <...ponders...> Oh right, I think it was just the  
> complication
> that at the time you encounter an unknown type, you are already knee- 
> deep in
> the middle of a fetch run, so making a separate call right then to  
> the backend
> to ask it for information about that type is not possible. One  
> solution would
> be to have a flag that makes DBD::Pg grab info about all custom  
> types on startup
> (which has an associated cost). Another would be to have it abort  
> the current
> fetch, grab the custom info, cache it, then re-run the query. A  
> third would be
> to have a special command that you can run to have it grab the  
> custom type
> information on demand.

The first solution is the one I was thinking of.

Best,

David