> A bit of context here. The perl DBD::Pg developers are trying to
figure
> out
> how to implement prepared queries sanely. As it stands now they're
> basically
> writing off both binary prepared queries and SQL based prepared
queries as
> basically useless. It would be a shame to have a brand new binary
protocol
> but
> find it ignored by driver writers.
>
> The problem is that you want to be able to do
>
> $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT col_a FROM tab WHERE col_b = ?");
> $sth->execute(1);
> ...
>
> And not have to jump through hoops binding parameters to types and so
on.
>
suggestion: default to text type ('character varying') and overload your
prepare method to allow a vector of types for special cases. It follows
that if you don't know what type you are dealing with than it gets dealt
with as a string.
Question: what is the relevance of the binary protocol, are you trying
to send/fetch binary data via the command interface?
Merlin