-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/18/07 11:08, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Josh Tolley wrote: >> On 8/18/07, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Interesting. Does PG have to initiate the Perl interpreter every >>> time you call a Perl-written SP? >> IIRC PostgreSQL should only load the perl interpreter once per session. > > Right. I'd have been stunned if you did it any other way. So why is Perl-SP-INSERT so much slower than Perl-SQL-INSERT? (I can imagine that the SP code path would be longer, but since IO is the slowest part of the system, I'm surprised that it's *that* much slower.) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGxx5jS9HxQb37XmcRAn1vAKCEWTovgcj/w/uFVK0nankGdbOFuACg6HSq dUnMN0dPsdQ8NKSDW0EahcU= =P8gN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq