On Sep 18, 2004, at 1:09 PM, Oliver Jowett wrote:
> Well, obviously. I haven't modified the backend code to accept
> 'unknown' in PREPARE..
Right, and that's what we're looking for.
> My point was the client does *not* need to know the type inferred by
> the PREPARE in the 'unknown' case to make use of the resulting
> statement. It can pass all parameters as text and use the type
> inference that happens on EXECUTE -- as is happening in the EXECUTE
> quoted above.
Yes, that's fine, but it's PREPARE that's at issue here, not EXECUTE.
Regards,
David
