Re: Getting the results columns before execution

Tom Lane wrote:
> Shachar Shemesh <psql@shemesh.biz> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Sure it is, if you are using the V3 protocol (new in 7.4).
> >> See the Describe message types.
> 
> > Are those exposed through the libpq interface?
> 
> No, because libpq doesn't really have any concept of prepared statements.
> It would probably make sense to add some more API to libpq to allow
> creation and interrogation of prepared statements, but no one's got
> around to that yet.

Uh, if libpq doesn't know about it, how is that information accessed?

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