Re: PREPARE / EXECUTE

> The idea is not to have it accross multiple backends and having it in
> sync with the tables in the database. This is not the point.
> My problem is that I have seen many performance critical applications
> sending just a few complex queries to the server. The problem is: If you
> have many queries where the relation "time planner"/"time executor" is
> very high (eg. complex joins with just one value as the result).

The standard approach to such a scenario would imho be to write stored procedures
for the complex queries (e.g. plpgsql) and use that from the client.
Maybe even eliminate a few ping pongs between client and server.

Andreas