> > I'm still holding back PREPARE for ecpg until I can think of a
> > good solution. The best of course would be in the backend.
>
> So what would it take to do this in the backend? I think the places
> which would need to be touched fall into areas I either know about or am
> starting to look at to implement the CASE clause.
>
> We'd need:
> - a "named buffer" (or several) to hold the intermediate input
portals
> - a way to pass in parameters or substitution arguments
SQL functions?
> - a way to decide if previous parser/planner/executor
> results can be reused
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