EXECUTE SQL - Language Statements EXECUTE execute a prepared query 2002-08-12 EXECUTE plan_name [ (parameter [, ...] ) ] [ INTO [ TEMPORARY | TEMP ] table ] 2002-08-12 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. table The name of the table in which to store the results of executing the query (if it is a SELECT). If no table is specified, the results are returned to the client (as normal). 2002-08-12 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. Like SELECT INTO, EXECUTE can store the results of executing the query into a newly-created table, by specifying an INTO clause. For more information on this behavior, see . For more information on the creation and usage of prepared queries, see . 2002-08-12 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.