On 2/3/06, Tyler MacDonald <tyler@xxxxxx> wrote: > I've been wondering, does anybody know which is more likely to be > installed on a postgresql server? Which is faster? I'm writting an > application in perl that is going to need to get broad information about > heiarchial data (how many parents, settings common on parents, etc), and I'd > like to put that data presentation logic into the database. plpgsql. for an explanation of my reasoning and a example of how to deal with heiarchial data, check out my blog at http://people.planetpostgresql.org/merlin/