by SigmundA | 2026-03-05 13:28:45+00:00
>If you add a global cache, it will have only a marginal value

Please substantiate this, again all other major commercial RDBMS's do this and have invested a lot of effort and money into these systems, they would not do something that has marginal value.

Again I went through the era of needing to manually prepare queries in client code when it was the only choice as it is now in PG. It was not a marginal improvement when automatic global caching became available, it was objectively measurable via industry standard benchmarks.

You can also find other post complaining about prepared statement cache memory usage especially when libs and pooler auto prepare, the cache is repeated for every connection, 100 connections equals 100X cache size. Another advantage of a shared cache, this is obvious.

I will leave you with a quote from Bruce Momjian, you know one of the founding members of the PG dev team, in the thread I linked that you didn't seem to read just like the other links I gave you:

"I think everyone agrees on the Desirability of the feature, but the
Design is the tricky part."

>The main issue you still do not understand is for different parameters you _need_ different plans, and caching doesn't help with that.

You still don't seem to be grasping what other more advanced systems do here and again don't seem to be reading any of the existing literature I am giving you. These systems will make different plans if they detect its necessary, they have MULTIPLE cached plans of the same statement and you can examine their caches and see stats on their usage.

These systems also have hints that let you disable, force a single generic, tell it how you want to evaluate specific parameters for unknown values, specific hard coded values etc. if you want to override their default behavior that uses statistics and heuristic to make a determination of which plan to use.

Please I beg you read what a modern commercial DB can do here and stop saying it doesn't help or can't be done, here is a direct link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/p...

>And you keep conflating "prapared" statements with plan caching.

Again we are talking about PG and the only way PG caches a plan is using prepared statements, in PG prepared statements and plan caching are the same thing, there is no other choice.

From your own link trying to gotcha me on PG plan caching config, first sentence of plan_cache_mode: "Prepared statements (either explicitly prepared or implicitly generated, for example by PL/pgSQL) can be executed using custom or generic plans."

The only other things a prepared statement does is skip parsing, which is another part of caching, and reduce network traffic from client to server. These things can be done with stored procedures in systems that have global caches and are shared across all connections and these systems still support the very rare situation of using a prepared statement, its almost vestigial now days.

Here is Microsoft Guidance on prepared statements in MSSQL now days:

"In SQL Server, the prepare/execute model has no significant performance advantage over direct execution, because of the way SQL Server reuses execution plans. SQL Server has efficient algorithms for matching current Transact-SQL statements with execution plans that are generated for prior executions of the same Transact-SQL statement. If an application executes a Transact-SQL statement with parameter markers multiple times, SQL Server will reuse the execution plan from the first execution for the second and subsequent executions (unless the plan ages from the plan cache)."

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/q...