On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Should we only be doing PREPARE on queries that are known to be safe (e.g.
> > single-statement SELECTs), or is it better to try to catch the errors and
> > abandon the prepare? (more general, but sounds a bit hairy).
>
> Uh, don't you have to be prepared to catch errors in PREPARE anyway?
> What if the command is syntactically or semantically wrong?
>
I believe he's suggesting that on a prepare error you would retry without
prepare instead of just reporting it back to the caller.
Kris Jurka