| From: | Brett McCormick <brett(at)funky(dot)chicken(dot)org> |
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| To: | "Ken J(dot) Wright" <ken(at)ori-ind(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [INTERFACES] how to obtain column info |
| Date: | 1998-11-11 05:33:15 |
| Message-ID: | 13897.8603.607626.743672@eidolon.muppetlabs.com |
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If you just want to know whether or not to quote it, just see if it
has any non-numerical characters. If so, quote it, otherwise, leave
it alone. Seems like their would be a loss in performace if you
checked the types instead of just quoting everything (which works
fine).
On Tue, 10 November 1998, at 16:38:02, Ken J. Wright wrote:
> With libpq, how do you obtain column info (like type) for a table *before*
> returning a result set? For instance, knowing the column type before
> constructing an insert statement. A date will need quotes, a number won't,
> a string will, etc.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken
>
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