Tom Lane wrote:
> Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com> writes:
> >> Hmm. So your vision of PREPARE would allow the backend to reply
> >> with a list of parameter types. How would you envision that working
> >> exactly?
>
> > I guess there's some sort of statement identifier you use to
> > refer to something you've prepared. Wouldn't a function call
> > returning a list of names or type oid's be sufficient?
>
> I was thinking of having the type names returned unconditionally,
> perhaps like a SELECT result (compare the new behavior of EXPLAIN).
> But if we assume that this won't be a commonly used feature, maybe
> a separate inquiry operation is better.
I wouldn't mind. One way or the other is okay with me.
Reminds me though of another feature we should have on the TODO. INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE ... RETURNING ...
Jan
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