Re: [HACKERS] Postgres Speed or lack thereof

Michael Meskes wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Jan 17, 1999 at 07:23:15PM -0800, Tom wrote:
> >   This also wouldn't you give you any benefit from "prepare" that would
> > speed up repeated executions of the same statement.  PostgreSQL does allow
> > statements to be prepared right?  If it doesn't, chances are COPY has a
> 
> Since when? I thought we're still looking for someone to implement it, i.e.
> at least the PREPARE statement.

1. PG can handle prepared queries.
   Parser & Planner can parse/plan (i.e. prepare) query with
   parameters once, so such prepared query can be executed 
   many times by executor without parser/planner invocation.
2. We have to implement some interface to use this ability.

Vadim