On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Jack Christensen
<jack@jackchristensen.com> wrote:
> The test suite for the Go PostgreSQL driver pgx
> (https://github.com/jackc/pgx) found an unexpected behavior change in PG10.
> Previously, it was impossible to prepare a statement with a unknown or
> ambiguous parameter type.
>
> Pre-version 10:
>
> jack=# prepare ps as select $1;
> ERROR: could not determine data type of parameter $1
>
> But on PG10 the type defaults to text:
>
> jack=# prepare ps as select $1;
> PREPARE
> Time: 0.183 ms
> jack=# execute ps('Hello, there');
> ?column?
> --------------
> Hello, there
> (1 row)
>
> Time: 0.437 ms
>
> I looked through the git log and couldn't find any commits referencing this.
> Is this an intended behavior change?
I suspect commit d8d32d9 is involved here, though I haven't verified that.
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Peter Geoghegan
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