<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >DEALLOCATE</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PostgreSQL 8.0.11 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="SQL Commands" HREF="sql-commands.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="CREATE VIEW" HREF="sql-createview.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="DECLARE" HREF="sql-declare.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="stylesheet.css"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><META NAME="creation" CONTENT="2007-02-02T03:57:22"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="5" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >PostgreSQL 8.0.11 Documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-createview.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-createview.html" >Fast Backward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="60%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-declare.html" >Fast Forward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-declare.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="SQL-DEALLOCATE" ></A >DEALLOCATE</H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN41628" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >DEALLOCATE -- deallocate a prepared statement</DIV ><A NAME="AEN41631" ></A ><A NAME="AEN41633" ></A ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN41636" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><PRE CLASS="SYNOPSIS" >DEALLOCATE [ PREPARE ] <TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >plan_name</I ></TT ></PRE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN41639" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P > <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >DEALLOCATE</TT > is used to deallocate a previously prepared SQL statement. If you do not explicitly deallocate a prepared statement, it is deallocated when the session ends. </P ><P > For more information on prepared statements, see <A HREF="sql-prepare.html" ><I >PREPARE</I ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN41645" ></A ><H2 >Parameters</H2 ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="LITERAL" >PREPARE</TT ></DT ><DD ><P > This key word is ignored. </P ></DD ><DT ><TT CLASS="REPLACEABLE" ><I >plan_name</I ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > The name of the prepared statement to deallocate. </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN41658" ></A ><H2 >Compatibility</H2 ><P > The SQL standard includes a <TT CLASS="COMMAND" >DEALLOCATE</TT > statement, but it is only for use in embedded SQL. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN41662" ></A ><H2 >See Also</H2 ><A HREF="sql-execute.html" ><I >EXECUTE</I ></A >, <A HREF="sql-prepare.html" ><I >PREPARE</I ></A ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-createview.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-declare.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >CREATE VIEW</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="sql-commands.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >DECLARE</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >