From: Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>
To: Craig James <craig_james@emolecules.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Highly Efficient Custom Sorting
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 09:44:38 +0800
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On 03/07/10 00:36, Craig James wrote:
> Perl itself is written in C, and some of it's operations are extremely
> fast.
The same is true of PL/PgSQL, though ;-)
The main advantage of PL/Perl is that it doesn't rely on the SPI to do
everything. It's interpreted not compiled, but it has a much faster
approach to interpretation than PL/PgSQL.
Really, the right choice depends on exactly what the OP is doing and
how, which they're not saying.
Where's the code?
--
Craig Ringer
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