On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 01:10:21AM -0000, Ben Trewern wrote: > I know I should be writing these in C but that's a bit beyond me. I was > going to try PL/Python or PL/Perl or even PL/Ruby. Has anyone any idea > which language is fastest, or is the data access going to swamp the overhead > of small functions? I'm not sure if it's what you ask for, but there _is_ a clear difference between the procedural languages -- I've had a 10x speed increase from rewriting PL/PgSQL stuff into PL/Perl, for instance. I'm not sure which ones would be faster, though -- I believe Ruby is slower than Perl or Python generally, but I don't know how it all works out in a PL/* setting. /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/
