EXECUTE(7)

🎀 NAME 🎀

EXECUTE(7) — execute a prepared statement, bestie. It’s the PostgreSQL move that runs a statement you already prepped earlier. Not the preparation itself — that’s PREPARE’s whole thing — this is the go do it now moment, iykyk. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

EXECUTE name [ ( parameter [, ...] ) ]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so here’s the tea: EXECUTE runs a statement that was previously prepared. Prepared statements are session-only girlies — they only exist for the duration of a session — so the PREPARE statement that created yours must have been executed earlier in the current session. No time-traveling, no borrowing from another session, no cap. ⭐

If the PREPARE that created the statement specified some parameters, then a compatible set of parameters must be passed to the EXECUTE statement, or else an error is raised. And important caveat, bestie: unlike functions, prepared statements are not overloaded based on the type or number of their parameters. The name of a prepared statement must be unique within a database session. That’s the vibe check. 🫶

For more information on the creation and usage of prepared statements, see PREPARE(7). 🌸

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🍓 PARAMETERS 🍓

• name — the name of the prepared statement to execute. Like, the actual name. No nicknames, no guessing. 🎀
• parameter — the actual value of a parameter to the prepared statement. This must be an expression yielding a value that is compatible with the data type of this parameter, as was determined when the prepared statement was created. Type match matters, fr fr. 💖

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💅 OUTPUTS 💅

The command tag returned by EXECUTE is that of the prepared statement, and not EXECUTE. So don’t @ me when the tag says something else — that’s literally the point. 😭✨

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🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

Examples are given in the Examples section in the PREPARE(7) documentation. Go look there, bestie — they ate. 🍓

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⭐ COMPATIBILITY ⭐

The SQL standard includes an EXECUTE statement, but it is only for use in embedded SQL. This version of the EXECUTE statement also uses a somewhat different syntax. It’s giving “same name, different font,” and that’s on periodt. 💀👑

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• DEALLOCATE(7)
• PREPARE(7)

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🫶 Signed with PostgreSQL 15.19 energy, dated 2026 — mwah 💋