Re: the parsing of parameters

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.

regards, tom lane