Re: SPI/backend equivalent of extended-query Describe(statement)?

On 05/24/2018 02:30 AM, Chapman Flack wrote:
> In 9.0, there's SPI_prepare_params, which seems promising; it accepts
> an arbitrary ParserSetupHook "to control the parsing of external parameter
> references." But its documentation doesn't suggest what to use as the
> ParserSetupHook to say "please just do the same stuff you would do if
> I were a client sending a Parse message with unspecified parameter types!"
>
> Perhaps I just need something like
>
> struct varparinfo { Oid *paramTypes, int numParams } vpi = {palloc(0), 0};
>
> static void inferringSetupHook(struct ParseState *pstate, void *arg)
> {
> struct varparinfo *vpi = (struct varparinfo *)arg;
> parse_variable_parameters(pstate, &vpi->paramTypes, &vpi->numParams);
> }
>
> SPI_prepare_params("SELECT $1", inferringSetupHook, &vpi, 0);

Am I on the right track here? Is what I'm looking to do something
that became possible in SPI in 9.0 and wasn't before, or did I overlook
a way it could have been done pre-9.0 ?

Thanks,
-Chap