10.6.4 The prepared_statements_instances Table

The Performance Schema provides instrumentation for prepared statements, for which there are two protocols:

• The binary protocol. This is accessed through the MySQL C API and maps onto underlying server commands as shown in the following table.

  C API Function	Corresponding Server Command
  mysql_stmt_prepare()	COM_STMT_PREPARE
  mysql_stmt_execute()	COM_STMT_EXECUTE
  mysql_stmt_close()	COM_STMT_CLOSE

• The text protocol. This is accessed using SQL statements and maps onto underlying server commands as shown in the following table.

  SQL Statement	Corresponding Server Command
  PREPARE	SQLCOM_PREPARE
  EXECUTE	SQLCOM_EXECUTE
  DEALLOCATE PREPARE, DROP PREPARE	SQLCOM_DEALLOCATE PREPARE

Performance Schema prepared statement instrumentation covers both protocols. The following discussion refers to the server commands rather than the C API functions or SQL statements.

Information about prepared statements is available in the prepared_statements_instances table. This table enables inspection of prepared statements used in the server and provides aggregated statistics about them. To control the size of this table, set the performance_schema_max_prepared_statements_instances system variable at server startup.

Collection of prepared statement information depends on the statement instruments shown in the following table. These instruments are enabled by default. To modify them, update the setup_instruments table.

Instrument	Server Command
statement/com/Prepare	COM_STMT_PREPARE
statement/com/Execute	COM_STMT_EXECUTE
statement/sql/prepare_sql	SQLCOM_PREPARE
statement/sql/execute_sql	SQLCOM_EXECUTE

The Performance Schema manages the contents of the prepared_statements_instances table as follows:

• Statement preparation

  A COM_STMT_PREPARE or SQLCOM_PREPARE command creates a prepared statement in the server. If the statement is successfully instrumented, a new row is added to the prepared_statements_instances table. If the statement cannot be instrumented, Performance_schema_prepared_statements_lost status variable is incremented.

• Prepared statement execution

  Execution of a COM_STMT_EXECUTE or SQLCOM_PREPARE command for an instrumented prepared statement instance updates the corresponding prepared_statements_instances table row.

• Prepared statement deallocation

  Execution of a COM_STMT_CLOSE or SQLCOM_DEALLOCATE_PREPARE command for an instrumented prepared statement instance removes the corresponding prepared_statements_instances table row. To avoid resource leaks, removal occurs even if the prepared statement instruments described previously are disabled.

The prepared_statements_instances table has these columns:

• OBJECT_INSTANCE_BEGIN

  The address in memory of the instrumented prepared statement.

• STATEMENT_ID

  The internal statement ID assigned by the server. The text and binary protocols both use statement IDs.

• STATEMENT_NAME

  For the binary protocol, this column is NULL. For the text protocol, this column is the external statement name assigned by the user. For example, for the following SQL statement, the name of the prepared statement is stmt:

  PREPARE stmt FROM 'SELECT 1';

• SQL_TEXT

  The prepared statement text, with ? placeholder markers.

• OWNER_THREAD_ID, OWNER_EVENT_ID

  These columns indicate the event that created the prepared statement.

• OWNER_OBJECT_TYPE, OWNER_OBJECT_SCHEMA, OWNER_OBJECT_NAME

  For a prepared statement created by a client session, these columns are NULL. For a prepared statement created by a stored program, these columns point to the stored program. A typical user error is forgetting to deallocate prepared statements. These columns can be used to find stored programs that leak prepared statements:

  SELECT
    OWNER_OBJECT_TYPE, OWNER_OBJECT_SCHEMA, OWNER_OBJECT_NAME,
    STATEMENT_NAME, SQL_TEXT
  FROM performance_schema.prepared_statements_instances
  WHERE OWNER_OBJECT_TYPE IS NOT NULL;

• TIMER_PREPARE

  The time spent executing the statement preparation itself.

• COUNT_REPREPARE

  The number of times the statement was reprepared internally (see Caching of Prepared Statements and Stored Programs). Timing statistics for repreparation are not available because it is counted as part of statement execution, not as a separate operation.

• COUNT_EXECUTE, SUM_TIMER_EXECUTE, MIN_TIMER_EXECUTE, AVG_TIMER_EXECUTE, MAX_TIMER_EXECUTE

  Aggregated statistics for executions of the prepared statement.

• SUM_xxx

  The remaining SUM_xxx columns are the same as for the statement summary tables (see Section 10.15.3, “Statement Summary Tables”).

TRUNCATE TABLE resets the statistics columns of the prepared_statements_instances table.