Re: Stored Procedures and compiling

Daniel Bruce Lynes <dlynes@shaw.ca> writes:
> I am curious if there is any planned support for full stored procedure
> compiling?  I've seen that PostgreSQL does not compile the SQL code inside
> plpgsql code.  It is merely interpreted when the procedure gets called.  This
> is also documented in the main html documentation.
> What I am wondering specifically is if stored procedure compiling will work
> similar to Oracle's stored procedure compilation in the future?

What exactly do you consider "compiling", and why do you think that
whatever Oracle does (which you didn't bother to explain) is superior
to what plpgsql does?

            regards, tom lane