On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 09:58:44AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> This is possible at the protocol level -- see Describe Statement.
> I'm not sure which client libraries let you get at the results ...
> libpq isn't one of them :-(
Thanks for answering my question so promptly!
I've made a small patch against 8.0.3 which adds this functionality to
libpq-fe. However I am not very certain of how the asynchronous stuff
works in this library, so it will need careful checking.
Nevertheless, it Works For Me in the limited testing I have done
against a 7.4 server.
http://annexia.org/tmp/PQsendDescribeStatement.diff
Note the user is expected to free(3) the Oids (types) array returned
by PQgetDescription.
Rich.
--
Richard Jones, CTO Merjis Ltd.
Merjis - web marketing and technology - http://merjis.com
Team Notepad - intranets and extranets for business - http://team-notepad.com
---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
|
