Re: Analyzing the types of prepared statements

2013/3/19 John DeSoi <desoi@pgedit.com>:
> On Mar 16, 2013, at 8:30 AM, Jason Dusek <jason.dusek@gmail.com> wrote:
>> However, it is not clear to me at this juncture how to get the
>> return type for a statement, given its text. Preparing and
>> looking it up in pg_prepared_statements will retrieve the
>> argument types but not the return type. Wrapping the query in a
>> SQL stored procedure which returns record doesn't cause the
>> server to infer and store a more specific type.
>
> You might want to take a look at the extended query protocol here:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/protocol-flow.html
>
> If you send a "parse" (P) messaged followed by "describe" (D), you can
> get a row description for the return type without executing anything.

Thanks for the tip. I will give that a shot.

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Jason Dusek
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