Thread: Re: libpq, PQdescribePrepared -> PQftype, PQfmod, no PQnullable

Re: libpq, PQdescribePrepared -> PQftype, PQfmod, no PQnullable

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"Kevin Grittner"
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Florian Pflug  wrote:
> On Oct9, 2011, at 14:20 , Kevin Grittner wrote:
>> Florian Pflug wrote:
>> 
>>> Coming up with a reasonable algorithm isn't *that* hard.
>> 
>> Agreed. Our shop has used a home-grown framework for over a decade
>> where we parse queries using ANTLR ( http://www.antlr.org/ ) and
>> we tracked this trough all expressions. There really weren't that
>> many situations where we had to punt.
> 
> Sounds cool. What was your use-case for doing that?
Portability.  That approach is what made the conversion to PostgreSQL
from the commercial product we were using quick and painless.
-Kevin