On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 12:40 PM Justin Pryzby <pry...@telsasoft.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 12:17:51PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 11:40 AM Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@alvh.no-ip.org> > wrote: > > > On 2022-Jul-15, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > > > > > > It seems a bit odd that it's impossible to use merge with prepared > statements > > > > without specifically casting the source types (which I did now to > continue my > > > > experiment). > > > > > > I have no comments on this. Maybe it can be improved, but I don't know > > > how. > > > > Not tested, but the example prepare command fails to make use of the > > optional data types specification. Using that should remove the need to > > cast the parameter placeholder within the query itself. > > What optional data type specification ? > The one documented here: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-prepare.html PREPARE name [ ( data_type [, ...] ) ] AS statement David J.