Which would be possible, but not without the server round trips that he also seems to want to get rid of. Basically, he wants a bunch of complexity and heurist

Which would be possible, but not without the server round trips that he also seems to want to get rid of. Basically, he wants a bunch of complexity and heuristics to be pushed into the query planner, the client, and the protocol, just so he doesn't have to write the column names.