[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I don't know much about DBI/DBD but I know sqlgrey uses a lot of > prepare/prepare_cached statements.
Well, those aren't exactly free. Possibly you could learn something about it by attaching to one of these backends with gdb and executing call MemoryContextStats(TopMemoryContext) This will dump a memory map to stderr. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match