I don't get this question, can someone reiterate the full context of it for me?
For instance, if you prepare the statement
"SELECT * FROM <table> WHERE id=?"
Firebird can figure out the type of the 'id' param, meaning you don't have to bind it to a certain type, whereas the emulated param binding routines cannot.
Additionally, MySQL is a lot more forgiving than Firebird if you put quotes around non-string arguments inside an SQL statement. So we might decide to make the type specification optional, and let it default to 'string'.
-- Ard
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