On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:51:46AM +0100, Együd Csaba (Freemail) wrote:
Hi,
> I've got it. Not the date handling is slow but the string handling.
> Eliminating the huge string buffer and running all the inserts row by row,
> the overall running time is 12 sec.
> So as a conclusion never use large strings in plpgsql functions.
I wonder why you are creating a table at all, when you could probably
use a SRF instead in the queries where you are using such table.
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