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Re: future of PQfn()

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> — 2026-05-28T15:17:41Z

On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 02:39:53PM -0700, Jacob Champion wrote:
> On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 12:55 PM Nathan Bossart
> <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I wonder how difficult it would be to teach the protocol to advise clients
>> when prepared statements are deallocated...
> 
> Probably not too difficult. But it seems like most, if not all, of the
> stuff in the DISCARD ALL umbrella is a target for a feature like
> that... This feels a lot like the perennial request for proxies to be
> able to separate their own context from the per-application/per-user
> contexts running on top of them.

I've been thinking through a bunch of options here, and a new protocol
message seems like the best choice, if for no other reason than it solves a
general problem for clients.  I'm working on a patch that I'll post in a
new thread.

-- 
nathan