From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Jonathan Gardner <jgardner(at)jonathangardner(dot)net>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Open items |
Date: | 2004-08-04 02:13:24 |
Message-ID: | 200408040213.i742DOZ08084@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> 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.
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