| From: | Volkan YAZICI <yazicivo(at)ttnet(dot)net(dot)tr> |
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| To: | Jacob Coby <jcoby(at)listingbook(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Dan Strömberg <dan(dot)stromberg(at)stockholm(dot)bonet(dot)se>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Column info without executing query |
| Date: | 2006-07-21 13:14:52 |
| Message-ID: | 20060721131452.GD1351@alamut.tdm.local |
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On Jul 21 09:02, Jacob Coby wrote:
> Volkan YAZICI wrote:
> >As Tom mentioned, there's support for this feature in the protocol
> >level, but I don't know any API supports this yet. However, here's a
> >patch that adds Describe functionality for Prepared Statements and
> >Cursors to libpq:
> >http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-06/msg01281.php
>
> PHP supports it with the pg_field_type() function.
PHP uses libpq in the background to communicate with the server. How
can you wait PHP to support a feature that's not supported by libpq?
Furtheremore, pg_field_type() queries system catalogs to collect
information which is quite different than Describe functionality.
Regards.
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