Re: libpq and prepared statements progress for 8.0

On Sep 17, 2004, at 1:54 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> David Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> writes:
>> if I understand a previous post from you, this functionality should be
>> added to libpq, but you haven't had time and aren't sure what the API
>> should look like, anyway, is that correct?
>
> Right.  Proposals welcome.

Wish I spoke C! But I don't think it makes sense to support PREPARE in 
DBD::Pg without this functionality. :-(

>> Is this the task labeled "allow libpq to check parameterized data 
>> types"
>> here?:
>>    http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgopenitems
>
> I think that was something else, but memory is fuzzy.

I'm less sure, since I was the one who asked Jan Wieck about this at 
OSCON, for which I believe that this is the relevant discussion:
  http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-08/msg00136.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2004-08/msg00130.php

But maybe Jan and I misunderstood each other?

Regards,

David