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From: aataneja@cs.mtu.edu (Bruce Taneja.)
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Subject: attribute names in "retrieve.."
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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 20:43:20 -0400 (EDT)
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Howdy folks,

I am trying to define a "complex object" .. for simplicity 
assume the circle.c example .. 

*           retrieve (tutorial.all)  \g  

would produce something like :

Query sent to backend is "retrieve (tutorial.all) "
---------------
| a       c   |
---------------
| (1 , 1, 10) |
---------------
| (2 , 2, 5)  |
---------------
| (0 , 1.8, 10)|
---------------

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Now, what I NEED is :

-----------------------------------
|          circle  a              |
-----------------------------------
|center x  |  center y  |  radius |
-----------------------------------
|    1     |     1      |    10   |
-----------------------------------
|    2     |     2      |    5    |
-----------------------------------
|    0     |     1.8    |    10   |
-----------------------------------

I can see how to produce "fancy string" data like:

" |    1     |     1      |    10   | " 

from my "circle_out " function , but how do can force postgres
to create  a  fancy header like I want :

-----------------------------------
|          circle  a              |
-----------------------------------      and not just ----------
|center x  |  center y  |  radius |                   |   a    |
-----------------------------------                   ----------


..... I don't think I can do this from the circle_out function
as then this header would be attached to every tuple retrieved

.. so where do I have to do the hacking ????

thanks a lot !
Bruce!

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