From: Bosco Rama <postgres@boscorama.com>
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: ecpg 'set' failure using host vars
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:20:42 -0700
Message-ID: <48A70C6A.6080107@boscorama.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14940.1218902460@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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<14940.1218902460@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Sorry about the 'false start' before. :-(
Tom Lane wrote:
> Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org> writes:
>> Without checking the sources it seems as if PQexecParams is not able
> to handle a parameter in a set command. Can anyone confirm this?
>
> The backend only supports parameters in plannable statements, ie
> SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE. (Possibly DECLARE CURSOR, I'm too
> lazy to check.)
Thanks for the hint guys. I used a prepare/execute pair instead and
it worked a treat. More cumbersome but it gets the job done.
Thanks again.
Bosco.
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