Re: Column info without executing query

On Jul 21 09:02, Jacob Coby wrote:
> Volkan YAZICI wrote:
> >As Tom mentioned, there's support for this feature in the protocol
> >level, but I don't know any API supports this yet. However, here's a
> >patch that adds Describe functionality for Prepared Statements and
> >Cursors to libpq:
> >http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-06/msg01281.php
>
> PHP supports it with the pg_field_type() function.

PHP uses libpq in the background to communicate with the server. How
can you wait PHP to support a feature that's not supported by libpq?
Furtheremore, pg_field_type() queries system catalogs to collect
information which is quite different than Describe functionality.


Regards.