Jim,

> Rather than complicate the protocol with various combined requests,
> why not allow batching of requests into a single message? This

would > let a single message of { start_transaction, allocate statement,

> prepare statement, execute, fetch, fetch, fetch }. The server would
> batch the responses (until one failed, of course). This would allow
> arbitrary and open ended batching of request types.

After hitting the "Send" button I started to think about this idea
too. I fully support it, since it gives us the required flexibility
and most likely the amount of changes is minimal.

Now, how do we define batches? Some method call isc_start_batch?

Roman