Re: Issue with PQdescribePortal to describe a select cursor

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> "Brijesh Shrivastav" <Bshrivastav@esri.com> writes:
> > My problem in executing a portal before I can describe is the way
> > our client api interface is defined. Typically user sends us a query
> > that we prepare and describe before sending the describe output
> > back to the client. In next step user provides us with any input
> > parameter data for the sql and ask us to execute the query. This
> > system works well with PQprepare/PQdescribePrepared but doesn't
> > give me the advantage of a portal. One option that will have a
> > performance penalty will be to prepare the statement
> without creating
> > a portal during initial query so I can send describe results back
> > to the client and only create the portal during the execute. I will
> > pay the cost of preparing query twice though I can set LIMIT to 0
> > for the initial query to possibly reduce the prepare time.
>
> You seem to be confusing preparing a query with executing it.  LIMIT 0
> isn't going to save any prepare time.

That is true, LIMIT 0 won't help me here. I was just trying to think of some
way where I can force a simple plan that takes less time to prepare since I am
going to disregard that plan in any case.

Brijesh