On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 01:05:40PM -0800, David E. Wheeler wrote: > On Jan 5, 2010, at 12:59 PM, Tim Bunce wrote: > > > So you're suggesting SP::foo(...) _always_ executes foo(...) via bunch > > of spi_* calls. Umm. I thought performance was a major driving factor. > > Sounds like you're more keen on syntactic sugar. > > I'm saying do both. Make the cached version the one that will be used > most often, but make available a second version that doesn't cache so > that you get the sugar and the polymorphic dispatch. Such would only > have to be used in cases where there is more than one function that > takes the same number of arguments. The rest of the time -- most of > the time, that is -- one can use the cached version.
I think I have a best-of-both solution. E-mail to follow... Tim. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
