PL/pgSQL EXECUTE '..' USING with unknown

There's a little problem with EXECUTE USING when the parameters are of
type unknown (going back to 8.4 where EXECUTE USING was introduced):

do $$
BEGIN
EXECUTE 'SELECT to_date($1, $2)' USING '17-DEC-80', 'DD-MON-YY';
END;
$$;
ERROR: failed to find conversion function from unknown to text
CONTEXT: SQL statement "SELECT to_date($1, $2)"
PL/pgSQL function "inline_code_block" line 2 at EXECUTE statement

The corresponding case works fine when used with PREPARE/EXECUTE:

postgres=# PREPARE foostmt AS SELECT to_date($1, $2);
PREPARE
postgres=# EXECUTE foostmt ('17-DEC-80', 'DD-MON-YY');
to_date
------------
1980-12-17
(1 row)

With PREPARE/EXECUTE, the query is analyzed with
parse_analyze_varparams() which allows unknown param types to be deduced
from the context. Seems we should use that for EXECUTE USING as well,
but there's no SPI interface for that.

Thoughts? Should we add an SPI_prepare_varparams() function and use that?

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Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com