Re: deallocating prepared statements

>-----Original Message-----
>Daniel Verite
> Haszlakiewicz, Eric wrote:
>
>> >The prepared statement's name is not a literal, and in general
>> >parameterized queries don't accept parameters beyond literals. So
>you
>> >need to insert the name directly into the SQL command text.
>> >
>>
>> Well, that sucks. Now I need to worry about quoting and escaping. :(
>> Is there a limit of what characters can be used in statement names?
>> Neither the docs for PQprepare(), nor the docs for the prepare
>statement
>> say anything about that.
>
>I think the statement's name is an "identifier", just like a table or
>column name.
>So it has to follow the rules defined for identifiers in the "SQL
>syntax" chapter.
>
>
> Best regards,
>--
> Daniel

ah.. yes, that makes sense. The syntax for identifiers is relatively
simple
(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/sql-syntax-lexical.html#
SQL-SYNTAX-IDENTIFIERS), so I _don't_ need to worry about quoting all
that much, just checking for invalid characters. That's much easier.
Thanks for the pointer!

eric