I presume you're refering to trigger. Since trigger often do something automagically :) and it sometime make developer hard to debug when something wrong since they they do not aware that there are triggers exist in database. Stored procedure is OK. CIIMW Sent from my BlackBerry® powered by Sinyal Kuat INDOSAT -----Original Message----- From: Some Developer <someukdeveloper@xxxxxxxxx> Sender: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.orgDate: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 01:29:14 To: <pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Why are stored procedures looked on so negatively? I've done quite a bit of reading on stored procedures recently and the consensus seems to be that you shouldn't use them unless you really must. I don't understand this argument. If you implement all of your logic in the application then you need to make a network request to the database server, return the required data from the database to the app server, do the processing and then return the results. A stored procedure is going to be a lot faster than that even if you just take away network latency / transfer time. I'm in the middle of building a database and was going to make extensive use of stored procedures and trigger functions because it makes more sense for the actions to happen at the database layer rather than in the app layer. Should I use them or not? -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general