Re: How to write a function that manipulates a set of results

> Sorry my sheer ignorance here.  I have already written a working, fully
> tested - albeit unoptimised - implementation of this algorithm in Ruby,
> accessible as a basic (HTTP GET) web service.  However, a developer here
> believes that the overhead of an HTTP connection over our gigabit LAN
> will add too much to the (> 1 second) running time of the calculations.
> This means that for political reasons we are forced to rewrite it as a
> stored procedure that we can call directly from application code.  The
> project is urgent, the aforementioned developer is now on holiday, and
> so my non-developer boss is scrabbling to learn PL/pgsql and I am forced
> to bombard the list with inane questions.  Thanks for your patience :)

Use plperl :) (seriously). Or plruby, there is one.

Joshua D. Drake

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