What's the life span of a PostgreSQL server-side prepared statement

Question

According to the PostgreSQL documentation, a prepared statement is bound to a database session/connection:

PREPARE creates a prepared statement. A pre

Answer 1

I think both are true, but in doubt the PostgreSQL documentation usually more true than me. However, here I think the PostgreSQL doc might be inaccurate.

It should probably read like this:

Prepared statements only last until it is DEALLOCATEed and no longer than the duration of the current database session.

Without checking I would strongly believe that the JDBC driver deallocates the server-side prepared statement when the JDBC PreparedStatement is closed.