On 03/07/10 00:36, Craig James wrote: > Perl itself is written in C, and some of it's operations are extremely > fast. The same is true of PL/PgSQL, though ;-) The main advantage of PL/Perl is that it doesn't rely on the SPI to do everything. It's interpreted not compiled, but it has a much faster approach to interpretation than PL/PgSQL. Really, the right choice depends on exactly what the OP is doing and how, which they're not saying. Where's the code? -- Craig Ringer -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance