Re: Getting the results columns before execution

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>>> Are those exposed through the libpq interface?
>>>
>>> No, because libpq doesn't really have any concept of prepared statements.
>>> It would probably make sense to add some more API to libpq to allow
>>> creation and interrogation of prepared statements, but no one's got
>>> around to that yet.
>
>> Uh, if libpq doesn't know about it, how is that information accessed?
>
> That's exactly the problem...

Currently the only way to do that would be to have a user defined
function that calls SPI_prepare() with the query string and returns the
desired information to the client.

Jan

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