Re: PREPARE / EXECUTE

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:02:14AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hans-J=FCrgen_Sch=F6nig?= <postgres(at)cybertec(dot)at> writes:
> > I wonder if there is a way to store a parsed/rewritten/planned query in
> > a table so that it can be loaded again.
>
> The original version of the PREPARE patch used a shared-across-backends
> cache for PREPAREd statements. We rejected that for a number of
> reasons, one being the increased difficulty of keeping such a cache up
> to date. I think actually storing the plans on disk would have all the
> same problems, but worse.

Right.

There's solution: persisten backend (for example like classic
apache). This solve problem with lifetime of all persistent caches.
It's already in TODO.

Karel

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