Tom Lane wrote: > Jan Wieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Having done something similar for the SPI manager once, so that > > parameters can have unknown type and the code calling SPI_prepare() will > > find the chosen types in the type array, so that the code calling > > SPI_execp() can do the appropriate type casting, my idea is that > > preparing a statement does the same and exec prepared actually accepts > > unknown type arguments and calls the typein function before running the > > plan. However, I still need to look at the code ... > > This is already *done*. All we need is to devise a reasonable API for > libpq to provide access to the V3-protocol Prepare message. I suspect > that we'd want it to bundle a Prepare and a Describe Statement > operation, so that the user would get back the list of actual argument > types in the same call that issues the prepare. But I haven't thought > it through in detail. > > > If this is doable that way, we could log it as an open issue that needs > > to be finished for release. > > [ shrug ] Arguably it was something that should have been done for 7.4. > If someone wants to step up to the plate now, I won't stand in the way.
Agreed. I will add it to the open items list. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
