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Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2003 13:00:03 +0200
From: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org>
To: Paul Tilles <Paul.Tilles@noaa.gov>
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: PREPARE in ECPG]
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On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 09:22:54AM -0400, Paul Tilles wrote:
> > Your posting is very interesting!   We are looking at porting our
> > Informix applications to PostgreSQL due to the increased cost of
> > licenses.

Version 7.4 will contain quite a lot of Informix compatibility.

> > I had read in the documentation that PREPARE/EXECUTE is available in
> > Version 7.3.  If this is not the case, we would not be able to port
> > our applications to PostgreSQL.

It is at least syntactically, i.e. the statement is not really prepared
but instead the function is simulated.

Michael
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