Hello, I'm thinking about adding support for PQexecParams and PQprepare in Psycopg. I've posted more details yesterday on the Psycopg mailing list <http://archives.postgresql.org/psycopg/2011-02/msg00076.php>. I have a few preliminary questions: How stable is the binary representation for the PostgreSQL types? We may just pass bytea data in binary format and pass everything else as text parameters, or pass different types too as binary, if performace would benefit. Did binary format ever changed in the past (at least since the introduction of the V3 protocol)? Is such binary representation more likely to change in the future respect to the textual one, in a way that forward/backward compatibility between server and client would be compromised? Query plans for prepared statements may be less efficient than ones for queries with bound parameters. Are query plans generated for PQexecParams calls as efficient as the ones generated for PQexec? Or do they have the same limitation of the ones generated for PQprepare? Thank you, -- Daniele -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
