Re: Function parameter names

Dennis Bjorklund <db@zigo.dhs.org> writes:
> And the cost will be fairly large for named parameters as well then. On 
> the other hand, if one omits the parameter names one would get almost the 
> same speed as before (an extra test is needed to see if we have any 
> parameter names that needs to be setup before the language handler is 
> called).

I see absolutely no need for the call path to do anything with this
stuff before it reaches the language handler.  All the handlers fetch
the pg_proc tuple anyway, and are perfectly capable of extracting the
parameter names for themselves if they want to.
        regards, tom lane