Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com> writes:
> Its an extension to the embedded SQL preprocessor which allows you to
> dynamically build queries at run-time, instead of compile-time.
> [...]
> you can *dynamically* build a SELECT statement, ask the database for a
> description of the result sets' attributes, allocate the variables
> dynamically to hold the results, and then perform the FETCH.
Well, this is obviously trivial if you use libpq directly. I don't
know whether ecpg emulates the spec's idea of the right API for it,
however.
regards, tom lane
