From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
To: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
Cc: Michael Pohl <pgsql@newtopia.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org, "George A.J" <jinujosein@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Which is faster SQL or PL/PGSQL
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:24:02 -0700
Message-ID: <200310201124.02090.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F942558.2000804@joeconway.com>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310201119240.10378-100000@server1.techplant.com>
<200310201849.19668.dev@archonet.com>
<3F942558.2000804@joeconway.com>
Joe,
> Yes, I believe so (well, actually the optimizer). An inlined SQL
> function ends up behaving like a macro that expands at run time and is
> therefore quite fast -- no function call overhead at all.
... but only in 7.4. In 7.2 and I think in 7.3 this was not implemented.
While we're on the topic, anyone know any good ways to speed up EXECUTE
statements in PL/pgSQL functions?
--
-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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