>> 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.

It is implemented in the connection pool classes of Jaybird. Optional,
so to say.

Roman