Re: Parsing speed (was Re: pgstats_initstats() cost)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: "Bruce Momjian" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Joe Conway" <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, "Gavin Sherry" <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>, "Andrew Dunstan" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Parsing speed (was Re: pgstats_initstats() cost)
Date: 2003-08-18 18:20:13
Message-ID: 28630.1061230813@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
>> ... If that's
>> what we think we want, we'd better put it on the wish-list for 7.5.

> If we had a Parse function, then we at phpPgAdmin could allow Reports to
> contain parameters, and detect as such, and then when they run their report,
> they can enter the values for that run.

If you want to do that, then I think you need the whole nine yards
including DescribeStatement support. Too late for 7.4, but let's make
it a TODO for 7.5:

* Add a libpq function to support Parse/DescribeStatement capability

regards, tom lane

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