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EXECUTE(5)
NAME
  EXECUTE - execute a prepared query

SYNOPSIS
     EXECUTE plan_name [ (parameter [, ...] ) ]

  INPUTS

  plan_name
       The name of the prepared query to execute.

  parameter
       The actual value of a parameter to the prepared query.  This must be
       an expression yielding a value of a type compatible with the data-type
       specified for this parameter position in the PREPARE statement that
       created the prepared query.

DESCRIPTION
  EXECUTE is used to execute a previously prepared query. Since prepared
  queries only exist for the duration of a session, the prepared query must
  have been created by a PREPARE statement executed earlier in the current
  session.

  If the PREPARE statement that created the query specified some parameters,
  a compatible set of parameters must be passed to the EXECUTE statement, or
  else an error is raised. Note that (unlike functions) prepared queries are
  not overloaded based on the type or number of their parameters: the name of
  a prepared query must be unique within a database session.

  For more information on the creation and usage of prepared queries, see
  PREPARE [prepare(5)].

COMPATIBILITY
  SQL92

  SQL92 includes an EXECUTE statement, but it is only for use in embedded SQL
  clients. The EXECUTE statement implemented by PostgreSQL also uses a
  somewhat different syntax.

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