Re: No parameters support in "create user"? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Tom Lane wrote:

>Parameters are only supported in plannable statements
>(SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE; I think there is some hack for DECLARE
>CURSOR these days too).
>  
>
That's a shame.

Aside from executing prepared statements, parameters are also useful for 
preventing SQL injections. Under those cases, they are useful for all 
commands, not only those that can be prepared.

Oh well. I'm not sure whether that's extremely clever or downright 
insane, but I'm solving this problem by calling "Select 
quote_literal($1)" and "select quote_id($1)", and then using the results.
         Shachar

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