OK, how about a backend function called 'is_prepared(name)'?
Chris
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> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Kevin Brown
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> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Prepared statements question
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> Neil Conway wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 22:48, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > > With prepared statements being all well and good, how do I
> know if the query
> > > has not yet been prepared in the backend? Or is this simply
> a situation
> > > where I can't win?
> >
> > Try the EXECUTE; if it fails, run the PREPARE and then rerun the
> > EXECUTE.
>
> Erm...won't the failed EXECUTE boot you out of the middle of a
> transaction? The documentation doesn't make it clear what happens in
> that case, and I don't have 7.3.x running to check for myself...
>
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