I found this link from IBM DB2 developers showing why PERSISTENT PREPARE is a good idea and how could it be implemented. http://www.hoadb2ug.org/Docs/Favero20606.pdf It seems that main benefit (beside efficiency) is memory. Having number of connections all with dozens of PREPARED statements consumes lot of memory. If we put these statements in global space (perhaps not even in RAM memory until needed) we could reuse optimization plans as well as physical space needed to store them. I also found articles: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-04/msg00867.php and http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2008-03/msg00480.php all about users trying to explain PERSISTENT PREPARE (some refer to it as global prepare). There are also some guys who actually made some code for PERSISTENT PREPARE: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-03/msg01228.php and http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-03/msg01219.php PEOPLE NEED THIS FEATURE !!! It is not discovering the wheel but it will simplify DB programming and even gain some performance. NONE OF POPULAR SQL DBMS (Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, Postgre, INTERBASE, FIREBIRD) HAVE THIS FEATURE. WHY ?
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