<para><literal>prepared</literal>: use extended query protocol with prepared statements.</para>

</listitem>

</itemizedlist>

Because in "prepared" mode <application>pgbench</application> reuses

the parse analysis result for the second and subsequent query

iteration, <application>pgbench</application> runs faster in the

prepared mode than in other modes.

</para>

<para>

The default is simple query protocol. (See <xref linkend="protocol"/>

for more information.)

</para>