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From: Rob Sargent <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Igor Korot <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-generallists.postgresql.org <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Double prepare
Date: Sat, 16 May 2026 08:07:01 -0600
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> On May 16, 2026, at 7:46 AM, Tom Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Igor Korot <[email protected]> writes:
>> Is there a way to see if the query has been prepared already (in libpq)?
> 
> Use the pg_prepared_statements view.  I don't think libpq keeps any
> client-side state about this.
> 
>> Or is it better to run for all known parameterized queries
>> in the very beginning of the program and just execute them when needed?
> 
> Very probably.  Querying every time would be
> expensive.
> 
If I am following correctly, one may query pg_prepared_statements with a specific query in hand. Should it not then be possible to cache that query as having been planned/prepared and proceed accordingly?

Might there be value in calling PQprepare as late as possible against most up-to-dare data?


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