Re: Parallel execution and prepared statements

Tobias Bussmann wrote:
>> I think if we don't see any impact then we should backpatch this
>> patch. However, if we decide to go some other way, then I can provide
>> a separate patch for back branches.  BTW, what is your opinion?
> 
> I could not find anything on backporting guidelines in the wiki but my opinion would be to backpatch
> the patch in total. With a different behaviour between the simple and extended query protocol it would
> be hard to debug query performance issue in user applications that uses PQprepare. If the user tries
> to replicate a query with a PREPARE in psql and tries to EXPLAIN EXECUTE it, the results would be
> different then what happens within the application. That behaviour could be confusing, like
> differences between EXPLAIN SELECT and EXPLAIN EXECUTE can be to less experienced users.

+1

Yours,
Laurenz Albe