Re: the parsing of parameters

Jan Wieck wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com> writes:
> > >> Hmm.  So your vision of PREPARE would allow the backend to reply
> > >> with a list of parameter types.  How would you envision that working
> > >> exactly?
> >
> > >     I  guess there's some sort of statement identifier you use to
> > >     refer to something you've prepared. Wouldn't a function  call
> > >     returning a list of names or type oid's be sufficient?
> >
> > I was thinking of having the type names returned unconditionally,
> > perhaps like a SELECT result (compare the new behavior of EXPLAIN).
> > But if we assume that this won't be a commonly used feature, maybe
> > a separate inquiry operation is better.
> 
>     I wouldn't mind. One way or the other is okay with me.
> 
>     Reminds  me  though  of another feature we should have on the
>     TODO.  INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE ... RETURNING ...

TODO already has:
 o Allow INSERT/UPDATE ... RETURNING new.col or old.col; handle         RULE cases (Philip)

Do we need DELETE too?

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