On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 02:04:00PM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>> > Tatsuo Ishii <ishii@postgresql.org> writes:
>> >> From the manual:
>> >> "An unnamed portal is destroyed at the end of the transaction"
>> >
>> > Actually, all portals are destroyed at end of transaction (unless
>> > they're from holdable cursors). Named or not doesn't enter into it.
>>
>> We need to fix the document then.
>
> I looked into this. The text reads:
>
> If successfully created, a named prepared-statement object lasts till
> the end of the current session, unless explicitly destroyed. An unnamed
> prepared statement lasts only until the next Parse statement specifying
> the unnamed statement as destination is issued.
>
> While the first statement does say "named", the next sentence says
> "unnamed", so I am not sure we can make this any clearer.
I'm not sure what this has to do with the previous topic. Aren't a
prepared statement and a portal two different things?
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