Re: [HACKERS] PREPARE

> > I'm still holding back PREPARE for ecpg until I can think of a
> > good solution. The best of course would be in the backend.
> 
> So what would it take to do this in the backend? I think the places
> which would need to be touched fall into areas I either know about or am
> starting to look at to implement the CASE clause.
> 
> We'd need:
>   - a "named buffer" (or several) to hold the intermediate input

portals

>   - a way to pass in parameters or substitution arguments

SQL functions?

>   - a way to decide if previous parser/planner/executor
>     results can be reused


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