"Harry Rossignol" <harrywr2(at)comcast(dot)net> writes:
> My experience using PQexecParams is that it has a performance
> degradation of a factor of 100's if not thousands.
This is demonstrably not so in general. You may be hitting a case where
the planner chooses a poor plan for lack of information about the value
of a parameter ... but with no details about the query or even mention
of which PG version you're talking about, this bug report isn't worth
the electrons it's written on.
regards, tom lane