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Re: 7.3 Prepared statements

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Francisco J Reyes <fran@natserv.net>
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, Ericson Smith <eric@did-it.com>, Postgresql General <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-01-03T03:09:14Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
A view is just syntaxic sugar added to a query that references the view.
A preparted statement actually saves the execution plan for repeated
execution.

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Francisco J Reyes wrote:
> On 17 Dec 2002, Neil Conway wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 10:19, Ericson Smith wrote:
> > > 1. What is the lifetime of the plan created?
> >
> > >From the PREPARE reference page:
> >
> > Prepared queries are stored locally (in the current backend), and only
> > exist for the duration of the current database session.
> 
> What is the difference/advantage between a prepared query and a view?
> 
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