Re: sessions and prepared statements

On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 08:55:16AM -0400, Rod Taylor wrote:
> BEGIN;
> SAVEPOINT;
> SELECT * FROM temporary_prepared_statement;
> ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT < on failure>;
> CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE temporary_prepared_statement ...;
> COMMIT;
> 
> Now you have a place to store and retrieve prepared connection state for
> the lifetime of the database backend provided PHP doesn't remove
> temporary tables on the connection.

This doesn't help today, but 8.2 will have a pg_prepared_statements
view.

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2006-01/msg00143.php
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/view-pg-prepared-statements.html

test=> PREPARE stmt (integer) AS SELECT * FROM foo WHERE x = $1;
test=> \x
Expanded display is on.
test=> SELECT * FROM pg_prepared_statements;
-[ RECORD 1 ]---+----------------------------------------------------------
name            | stmt
statement       | PREPARE stmt (integer) AS SELECT * FROM foo WHERE x = $1;
prepare_time    | 2006-06-16 07:07:41.682999-06
parameter_types | {integer}
from_sql        | t

-- 
Michael Fuhr