Excerpts from Merlin Moncure's message of sáb jul 03 18:53:46 -0400 2010: > What about my suggestion doesn't work for your requirements? (btw, > let me disagree with my peers and state pl/perl is lousy for this type > of job, only sql/and pl/sql can interact with postgresql variables > natively for the most part). IIRC the other reason pl/perl sucks for this kind of thing is that it forces a subtransaction to be created before the function call, which is expensive. (I might be misremembering and what actually causes a subtransaction is a SPI call inside a PL/Perl function, which wouldn't apply here.) -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance