Is there a TODO here? Text? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tom Lane wrote: > Christopher Kings-Lynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What do you actually get back from a Parse request? > > Nothing. If successful, it creates a prepared statement inside the > server. > > It might possibly make sense for a libpq routine that exposes Parse > to actually do Parse followed by Describe Statement; that would allow > it to give back (a) an indication of the number and types of parameters > needed by the statement, and (b) an indication of the column set to be > returned, if it's a SELECT. However, the protocol doesn't tell anything > about the type of a non-SELECT statement. In any case, this would > require more invention and coding than I care to do at this point in > the release cycle (since there's no support in the guts of libpq for > accepting ParameterDescription messages from the backend). If that's > what we think we want, we'd better put it on the wish-list for 7.5. > > regards, tom lane > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your > joining column's datatypes do not match > -- 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 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])