Re: Parsing speed (was Re: pgstats_initstats() cost)

Tom Lane wrote:
> A Bind/Execute facility would need a pair of routines with signatures
> very similar to PQexecParams/PQsendQueryParams --- they'd take a
> prepared statement name instead of a query string, and they'd not need
> an array of parameter type OIDs, but otherwise the same. I couldn't
> come up with very good names for them though. Best idea so far is
> PQexecPrepared/PQsendQueryPrepared, but maybe someone has a better one?

Those sound reasonable to me.

> We could also think about providing an interface to do just Parse,
> although this is inessential since you can set up a prepared statement
> by PQexec'ing a PREPARE command.
>

Agreed -- that sounds like a nice-to-have for some future release, but
not enough of an issue to warrant getting put into 7.4 at this point.

Joe