From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Find out if a parameter/return field is NULLABLE using Describe
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:38:22 +0000
Message-ID: <20060130203822.GA16111@furbychan.cocan.org> (raw)
It doesn't seem to be possible to find out if a parameter or result
field is nullable using the Describe protocol.
For example if I have this table and statement:
create table employees (
id serial not null primary key,
name text not null,
email text <-- this field
);
insert into employees (name, email) values ($1, $2);
Then the only information I get back about $2 is that it's a TEXT (OID
= 25), when clearly $1 and $2 are different in that one is nullable
and the other isn't.
Similarly,
select name, email from employees;
This time I get more information about the types, including a modifier
and length, but I can't see whether that lets me find out that one
could be NULL and the other can never be.
So is this possible?
Rich.
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