On Sat, Mar 24, 2001 at 11:36:56PM -0500, Tom Lane allegedly wrote:
> Mathijs Brands <mathijs@ilse.nl> writes:
> > How about being able to recompile them (keeping the SQL around in the
> > system catalogs)? Doesn't Oracle allow you to do something like that?
>
> That's another possibility. It's not real clear that there's any
> advantage to storing rules in preparsed form to begin with --- if
> we just stored the original text and reparsed it each time it was
> read, the system would be vastly more flexible, and probably not
> noticeably slower.
But every bit of performance counts, of course...
Mathijs
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