"Real" prepared statements in CI?

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Has anyone gotten real prepared statements working in CI?

It looks like even if I'm passing in very optimizable queries like

Code:

$db->query("select * from mytable where id=?", array(5))

CI then pulls them apart and manually constructs the full query with the variables replaced with values, which loses all query compilation optimization that you would get if you did a more normal "bind_param" method.