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SPI_prepare

Name

SPI_prepare — Connects your procedure to the SPI manager.
SPI_prepare(query, nargs, argtypes)

Inputs

query

Query string

nargs

Number of input parameters ($1 ... $nargs - as in SQL-functions)

argtypes

Pointer list of type OIDs to input arguments

Outputs

void *

Pointer to an execution plan (parser+planner+optimizer)

Description

SPI_prepare creates and returns an execution plan (parser+planner+optimizer) but doesn't execute the query. Should only be called from a connected procedure.

Usage

nargs is number of parameters ($1 ... $nargs - as in SQL-functions), and nargs may be 0 only if there is not any $1 in query.

Execution of prepared execution plans is sometimes much faster so this feature may be useful if the same query will be executed many times.

The plan returned by SPI_prepare may be used only in current invocation of the procedure since SPI_finish frees memory allocated for a plan. See SPI_saveplan.

If successful, a non-null pointer will be returned. Otherwise, you'll get a NULL plan. In both cases SPI_result will be set like the value returned by SPI_exec, except that it is set to SPI_ERROR_ARGUMENT if query is NULL or nargs < 0 or nargs > 0 && argtypes is NULL.