If you just want to know whether or not to quote it, just see if it
has any non-numerical characters. If so, quote it, otherwise, leave
it alone. Seems like their would be a loss in performace if you
checked the types instead of just quoting everything (which works
fine).
On Tue, 10 November 1998, at 16:38:02, Ken J. Wright wrote:
> With libpq, how do you obtain column info (like type) for a table *before*
> returning a result set? For instance, knowing the column type before
> constructing an insert statement. A date will need quotes, a number won't,
> a string will, etc.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken
>
