Re: massive quotes?

>How is that relevant? It's still parseable with parameter placeholders in
>place of literal parameters.
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*NO PARSING*
The script must be stuffable into PQexec in total, backend does the rest.

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>Presumably \beginliteral \endliteral would be psql's way of specifying
>parameters to ship over as parameters.
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Again: not psql, but sql language itself must provide this.

>It probably is, but that's not what I was thinking of. I was thinking it
>wouldn't have to poke around inside the string at all, it would pass it as an
>out-of-band parameter using the new FE protocol.
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No out-of-band, because this would require splitting the script in pieces.

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>This helps with DBI too, since you can already do that.
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>$dbh->do("CREATE FUNCTION foo as ? LANGUAGE SQL", $func);
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There may be a huge number of CREATE FUNCTION within the same script!

Regards,
Andreas