Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2016-01-25 12:39:29 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
>> What is the ideal behavior, in your view?
> FWIW, I think that for a lot of practical cases the previous behaviour,
> where a prepared statement was defined in the context of the search path
> set during the PREPARE, made a lot more sense.
That argument is defensible probably for explicit PREPARE, but not at all
so for preparing done behind the scenes, as plpgsql does it, or as jdbc
does it. The previous behavior amounted to silent inconsistency for
plpgsql users; statements that weren't obviously different might be
executed with the current search_path or with some previous setting.
regards, tom lane