Re: Confusion over Python drivers - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Sabino Mullane
Subject Re: Confusion over Python drivers
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In response to Re: Confusion over Python drivers  (Andrew McNamara <andrewm@object-craft.com.au>)
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>>The solution is to write the query in an unambiguous way:
>>
>>  SELECT $1::date + 1;
>>
>>which is good practice, anyway. If it's not obvious to the type
>>inference system, it's probably not obvious to you, and will probably
>>surprise you ;)
>
> That address this specific case, but it's ugly and not general. The right
> thing is to set the correct type when you're marshalling the parameters...

Well, ugly is in the eye of the beholder, and it certainly is a general 
solution. Any query with ambiguity in its parameters should explicitly 
declare the types, inside the query itself. Having the driver indicate 
the type should be the exception, not the rule.

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