Dimitri escribió: > Hi Aidan, > > thanks a lot for this detailed summary! > > So, why I don't use prepare here: let's say I'm testing the worst > stress case :-) Imagine you have thousands of such kind of queries - > you cannot prepare all of them! :-) Thousands? Surely there'll be a dozen or three of most common queries, to which you pass different parameters. You can prepare thoseu > Now, as you see from your explanation, the Part #2 is the most > dominant - so why instead to blame this query not to implement a QUERY > PLANNER CACHE??? - in way if any *similar* query is recognized by > parser we simply *reuse* the same plan?.. This has been discussed in the past, but it turns out that a real implementation is a lot harder than it seems. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance