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

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SPI/backend equivalent of extended-query Describe(statement)?
Date: 2018-05-25 22:01:49
Message-ID: 16616.1527285709@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Chapman Flack <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net> writes:
> 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 ?

Offhand I don't believe SPI exposed a way to do that before 9bedd128d.
Does it matter? Pre-9.0 releases are long out of support by now,
which means they're full of known data-loss hazards and security bugs.

regards, tom lane

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