Re: Writing most code in Stored Procedures

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On 08/18/07 11:08, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Josh Tolley wrote:
>> On 8/18/07, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>>> Interesting.  Does PG have to initiate the Perl interpreter every
>>> time you call a Perl-written SP?
>> IIRC PostgreSQL should only load the perl interpreter once per session.
>
> Right.

I'd have been stunned if you did it any other way.

So why is Perl-SP-INSERT so much slower than Perl-SQL-INSERT?

(I can imagine that the SP code path would be longer, but since IO
is the slowest part of the system, I'm surprised that it's *that*
much slower.)

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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