Re: the parsing of parameters

Jan Wieck wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> > >> Hmm. So your vision of PREPARE would allow the backend to reply
> > >> with a list of parameter types. How would you envision that working
> > >> exactly?
> >
> > > I guess there's some sort of statement identifier you use to
> > > refer to something you've prepared. Wouldn't a function call
> > > returning a list of names or type oid's be sufficient?
> >
> > I was thinking of having the type names returned unconditionally,
> > perhaps like a SELECT result (compare the new behavior of EXPLAIN).
> > But if we assume that this won't be a commonly used feature, maybe
> > a separate inquiry operation is better.
>
> I wouldn't mind. One way or the other is okay with me.
>
> Reminds me though of another feature we should have on the
> TODO. INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE ... RETURNING ...

TODO already has:

o Allow INSERT/UPDATE ... RETURNING new.col or old.col; handle
RULE cases (Philip)

Do we need DELETE too?

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