Quoting Bojan Smojver <bojan@rexursive.com>:

> Is there are particular reason why PQprepare() isn't used to prepare
> statements? Currently, DBD code builds an SQL statement with PREPARE
> [...] at the beginning and then executes that, instead of calling the
> mentioned API function.

Don't worry about answering this. Looks like 7.4 doesn't have this  
call, so I'm guessing it a backward compatibility thing.

-- 
Bojan