On 6/29/07, Jan Danielsson <jan.m.danielsson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hello all, In order to speed up commonly used queries, I use prepared statements. I assume that 'prepare' tells some database query planner to take a look at a query, and do all preparations for it, then store those preparations somewhere for when it's needed. When I use CREATE FUNCTION to create a function, does that also get "planned" automatically (plsql, specifically). My gut feeling is that it doesn't (mainly since it can be any external language).
'execute' is pretty much the fastest possible way to execute a query (or, even better, PQexecPrepared via C)...it's less cpu cycles than a function although barely. I would suggest maybe rethinking your query into a view and querying that with or without prepare. merlin
