Re: eWeek Poll: Which database is most critical to

> In general, Postgres' query plans *do* depend on the values of
> constants, and it's not always possible to produce an equally good plan
> that doesn't assume anything about constants. This is why I think it's
> a lousy idea for the system to try to automatically abstract a
> parameterized query plan from the actual queries it sees. On the other
> hand, an application programmer will have a very good idea of which
> parts of a repeated query are really constant and which are parameters.
> So what we really need is preparable parameterized queries, wherein the
> application tells us what to parameterize, rather than having to guess
> about it.

I think we could store the constants that went with the saved plan and
re-use the plan if the new constants were _similar_ to the old ones.
(Of course, figuring out _similar_ is the trick here.)

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