On 4/11/06, Simon Dale <sdale@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to evaluate PostgreSQL as a database that will have to store a > high volume of data and access that data frequently. One of the features on > our wish list is to be able to use stored procedures to access the data and > I was wondering if it is usual for stored procedures to perform slower on > PostgreSQL than raw SQL? No. RETURN NEXT keeps accumulating the data before returning. I am not sure if any optimisations have been done to that effect. In general functions are *NOT* slower than RAW SQL. Regds mallah.
