> You only need to explicitly create a prepared statement if you're reusing it It does prepare statements internally, but they're not reused, which is the main

> You only need to explicitly create a prepared statement if you're reusing it It does prepare statements internally, but they're not reused, which is the main point of prepared statements: I know I'll run this thing a bazillion times, so I want to prepare it once and then just execute it with new parameters from now on. As far as I can see, no caching is done [1]. There's a TODO note about maybe adding caching in the future. [1] https://golang.org/src/database/sql/sql.go https://golang.org/src/database/sql/sql.go