Re: ANY subquery and PreparedStatements

If the "virtually unlimited number of parameters" is itself being generated by a query, perhaps you could use an EXISTS clause:

select * from <table> where EXISTS (
SELECT 1
FROM <othertables>, <table>
WHERE <table.field> ...
)

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:57:03PM -0300, Felipe Schnack wrote:
> This is actually a very good solution to the problem... I'm sorry that
> in my case I have a virtually unlimited number of parameters :-(
>
> On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 13:54, Csaba Nagy wrote:
> > Hi Felipe,
> >
> > What we are doing in our code is to prepare a statement with a lot of
> > parameter placeholders, something like:
> >
> > select * from <table> where <field> in (?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?);
> >
> > and then set some of the parameters with the available values, and set
> > the rest to nulls. The nulls should be disregarded by the backend
> > anyway... this works well with Oracle, I'm not sure how efficient is
> > with Postgres.
> > The only reason to use this is to have a prepared statement instead of
> > building dynamic queries all the time. You only must make sure the nr.
> > of ? signs is at least as much as many parameters you can have at
> > maximum.
> >
> > HTH,
> > Csaba.
> >
> > On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 13:24, Felipe Schnack wrote:
> > > I'm afraid it kind of impossible to use PreparedStatements with the
> > > "ANY" subquery keyword... For example, if I take this query and prepare
> > > it:
> > > "select * from <table> where <field> any (?)"
> > > How can I set my parameter as a list of values, so my query searches
> > > for for different values of the specified field?
> > >
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