Indirect column binding

[SoronelHaetir]

Something I have long wanted from ODBC is the ability to do indirect column binding (the way OLEDB can with its DBTYPE_BYREF).

Right now ODBC bindings must be 'flat', that is the memory must be present at the address calculated by adding any offset to the address passed to SQLBindCol//SQLBindParameter. It would be very useful if instead the buffer at the calculated address were itself a pointer and thus allowed structures with embedded pointers to be used when row-wise binding is in effect.

It is possible to perform such indirect binding by using data-at-exec but that is a complicated process for something that could be achieved far easier by the addition of new C target type values (the method I would prefer) or a descriptor attribute.