Re: libpq and prepared statements progress for 8.0

On Sep 19, 2004, at 9:13 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:

> OK, how about adding a PQprepare (PQcreatePrepared?) function like
> this?
>
> PGresult *
> PQprepare(PGconn *conn,
> const char *stmtName,
> const char *query,
> int nParams,
> const Oid *paramTypes)
> {
> ...
>
> PQprepare would construct a Parse message to create a prepared
> statement
> named stmtName from the given query, with nParams types pre-declared.
> It
> could be called by DBD::Pg with nParams == 0 to let the server infer
> all
> of the parameter types.

Sounds damn good to me, Abhihit, thanks!

> I suppose an asynchronous equivalent would also be needed.
> (Yes, I'm volunteering to write both functions.)

Woot! :-)

Regards,

David