> Thanks very much for the speedy reply Roman, that's answered/confirmed a
> lot of my concerns. The pooling of prepared statements is an interesting
> idea... but looks like we need to have a big re-think of our prepared
> statements code in our web app.

Pooling of prepared statements in the way you want to should be implemented in the driver and/or the server. I believe Jaybird/Firebird currently has neither.

Mark
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