static int
oratype_bind_ok(dbtype)	/* It's a type we support for placeholders */
    int dbtype;
{
    /* basically we support types that can be returned as strings */
    switch(dbtype) {
    case  1:	/* VARCHAR2	*/
    case  5:	/* STRING	*/
    case  8:	/* LONG		*/
    case 23:	/* RAW		*/
    case 24:	/* LONG RAW	*/
    case 96:	/* CHAR		*/
    case 97:	/* CHARZ	*/
    case 106:	/* MLSLABEL	*/
    case 102:	/* SQLT_CUR	OCI 7 cursor variable	*/
    case 112:	/* SQLT_CLOB / long	*/
    case 113:	/* SQLT_BLOB / long	*/
    case 116:	/* SQLT_RSET	OCI 8 cursor variable	*/
	return 1;
    }
    return 0;
}