On Jul 20 08:21, Dan Strömberg wrote:
> I would like to know if it is possible to find out the datatypes in the
> resultset of a query or a set returning
> function without actually executing them ?
As Tom mentioned, there's support for this feature in the protocol
level, but I don't know any API supports this yet. However, here's a
patch that adds Describe functionality for Prepared Statements and
Cursors to libpq:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-06/msg01281.php
Regards.