async def _mogrify(conn, query, args):
    """Safely inline arguments to query text."""
    # Introspect the target query for argument types and
    # build a list of safely-quoted fully-qualified type names.
    ps = await conn.prepare(query)
    paramtypes = []
    for t in ps.get_parameters():
        if t.name.endswith('[]'):
            pname = '_' + t.name[:-2]
        else:
            pname = t.name

        paramtypes.append('{}.{}'.format(
            _quote_ident(t.schema), _quote_ident(pname)))
    del ps

    # Use Postgres to convert arguments to text representation
    # by casting each value to text.
    cols = ['quote_literal(${}::{}::text)'.format(i, t)
            for i, t in enumerate(paramtypes, start=1)]

    textified = await conn.fetchrow(
        'SELECT {cols}'.format(cols=', '.join(cols)), *args)

    # Finally, replace $n references with text values.
    return re.sub(
        r'\$(\d+)\b', lambda m: textified[int(m.group(1)) - 1], query)
Safely inline arguments to query text.