Re: Prepared statements considered harmful

Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> As noted downthread, we've confused out-of-line parameter value shipping
>> with prepared statements.  It might be worth rejiggering the FE/BE
>> protocol to separate those things better.

> Well, that's surely not going to happen in a hurry, is it? Maybe a quick 
> fix would be a way to allow the user to turn plan caching on and off.

There aren't any "quick fixes" here (at least nothing that's likely to
appear in 8.2).  But I didn't mean the above suggestion as our only
response to Peter's criticism --- more that that is one of several areas
we ought to think about.
        regards, tom lane