Is there a performance difference between the two?
which of the PL is most widely used. One problem i have with the plpgsql
is that the quoting is really a pain.
Christopher Browne wrote:
>After takin a swig o' Arrakan spice grog, alex@meerkatsoft.com (Alex) belched out:
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>>i am thinking about swiching to plperl as it seems to me much more
>>flexible and easier to create functions.
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>>what is the recommended PL for postgres? or which one is most widely
>>used / most popular?
>>is there a performance difference between plpgsql and plperl ?
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>If what you're trying to do is "munge text," pl/perl will be a whole
>lot more suitable than pl/pgsql because it has a rich set of text
>mungeing tools and string functions which pl/pgsql lacks.
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>If you intend to do a lot of work involving reading unmunged tuples
>from this table and that, pl/pgsql provides a much more natural
>syntax, and will probably be a bit faster as the query processor may
>even be able to expand some of the actions, rather than needing to
>treat Perl code as an "opaque blob."
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>I would definitely be inclined to use the more natural language for
>the given task...
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