Re: Prepared statements considered harmful

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>From: Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com>
>To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
>CC: postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
>Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Prepared statements considered harmful
>Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:52:05 +0200
>
>On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 14:32, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 31. August 2006 14:11 schrieb Csaba Nagy:
> > > How about "prepared" means really "prepared"... in the sense of 
parsed,
> > > analyzed all sensible plans, and save a meta-plan which based on 
current
> > > statistics and parameter values chooses one of the considered (and
> > > cached) plans ?
> >
> > I don't think this could solve one particularly frequent problem which 
is that
> > pattern matching queries don't get along with prepared plans if the 
search
> > pattern isn't known at planning time.
>
>Why not ? I specifically said you would prepare a few sensible plans
>based on statistics/expected variations of the statistics, and parameter
>value ranges which would trigger different plans.
>
>So for the like query case you could save 2 plans, one for the indexable
>case, one for the not indexable case. Then at runtime you choose the
>proper one based on the pattern value. The meta-plan I mentioned would
>be a collection of plans with rules to choose the right one at run time
>based on parameter values and perhaps the current statistics.
>
>This of course would need a lot more preparation time than just prepare
>one plan, but that's why you want to do it upfront and then cache the
>results. A central plan repository mentioned in other posts would fit
>nicely here... and you could use prepared plans for non-parameterized
>queries too by simply considering the constants as parameters, to
>increase the chances for a prepared plan reuse - this of course for
>complex enough queries.
>
>Cheers,
>Csaba.
>
>
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