Dmitry Tkach <dmitry@openratings.com> writes:
> - a general solution, that would involve extending postgres SQL gramma
> to include a 'prepare' statement
As someone else mentioned, this has been implemented for 7.3. I
implemented PREPARE/EXECUTE/DEALLOCATE on the backend side, Barry Lind
(I believe) added support for using backend prepared statements to the
JDBC driver.
> The second solution is not only ugly (because it requires the
> application code to be changed and to have a specialized stored
> procedure for every query), but also requires some additional hacks
> (to overcome the hard limit on the number of function arguments and
> the inability for functions to return tuples)
Note that in 7.3, functions can return sets of tuples.
Cheers,
Neil
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