Re: [PATCHES] prepareable statements - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [PATCHES] prepareable statements
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Msg-id 4984.1027438479@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [PATCHES] prepareable statements  (nconway@klamath.dyndns.org (Neil Conway))
Responses Re: [PATCHES] prepareable statements  (Rod Taylor <rbt@zort.ca>)
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nconway@klamath.dyndns.org (Neil Conway) writes:
> Regarding the syntax for EXECUTE, it occurs to me that it could be made
> to be more similar to the PREPARE syntax -- i.e.

> PREPARE foo(text, int) AS ...;

> EXECUTE foo('a', 1);

> (rather than EXECUTE USING -- the effect being that prepared statements
> now look more like function calls on a syntactical level, which I think
> is okay.)

Hmm, maybe *too* much like a function call.  Is there any risk of a
conflict with syntax that we might want to use to invoke stored
procedures?  If not, this is fine with me.
        regards, tom lane


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