OCIBindByName always allocates a new bind handle?

The OCI 8 manual says that the bindpp parameter of OCIBindByName takes "an

address of a bind handle which is implicitly allocated by this call...The
handle is freed implicitly when the statement handle is deallocated.  On
input, the value of the pointer must be NULL or a valid bind handle."

The last sentence seems to imply that you can pass it a previously allocated bind handle and have it use it instead of creating a new one. However, I tried this and it seems to allocate a new handle anyway.

Is there a way to get OCIBindByName to reuse an existing bind handle?

-Erik Received on Thu Aug 13 1998 - 18:04:38 CDT