> This has been covered before, but to reiterate: why would you need this?
> Any application worth its salt should be tracking which statements it
> has already prepared (after all, they cannot span connections). Seems
> a waste of resources to make a separate call to the database for
> information you should already know.
Erm, websites...use persistent connections...you have no idea if you're
dealing with a new connection or a reused one, and if the statement is
prepared or not.
Chris