Re: Avoiding bad prepared-statement plans.

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> Well using parameters will always have a better chance of producing a
> better plan but that's not the only factor people consider important.
> For a lot of users *predictability* is more important than absolute
> performance. If my web server could run 10% faster that might be nice
> but if it's capable of keeping up at its current speed it's not
> terribly important. But if it means it crashes once a day because some
> particular combination of parameters causes a bad plan to be used for
> a specific user that's a bad trade-off.
>

+1

Pavel

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> greg
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