>How is that relevant? It's still parseable with parameter placeholders in
>place of literal parameters.
>
*NO PARSING*
The script must be stuffable into PQexec in total, backend does the rest.
>
>
>Presumably \beginliteral \endliteral would be psql's way of specifying
>parameters to ship over as parameters.
>
Again: not psql, but sql language itself must provide this.
>It probably is, but that's not what I was thinking of. I was thinking it
>wouldn't have to poke around inside the string at all, it would pass it as an
>out-of-band parameter using the new FE protocol.
>
No out-of-band, because this would require splitting the script in pieces.
>
>This helps with DBI too, since you can already do that.
>
>$dbh->do("CREATE FUNCTION foo as ? LANGUAGE SQL", $func);
>
There may be a huge number of CREATE FUNCTION within the same script!
Regards,
Andreas