On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> This seems like a good design. Now what would be really cool is if >> you could observe a stream of queries like this: > >> SELECT a, b FROM foo WHERE c = 123 >> SELECT a, b FROM foo WHERE c = 97 >> SELECT a, b FROM foo WHERE c = 236 > >> ...and say, hey, I could just make a generic plan and use it every >> time I see one of these. It's not too clear to me how you'd make >> recognition of such queries cheap enough to be practical, but maybe >> someone will think of a way... > > Hm, you mean reverse-engineering the parameterization of the query? > Interesting thought, but I really don't see a way to make it practical. > > In any case, it would amount to making up for a bad decision on the > application side, ie, not transmitting the query in the parameterized > form that presumably exists somewhere in the application. I think > we'd be better served all around by encouraging app developers to rely > more heavily on parameterized queries ... but first we have to fix the > performance risks there.
Fair enough. I have to admit I'm afraid of them right now. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers