which of the PL is most widely used. One problem i have with the plpgsql is that the quoting is really a pain.
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i am thinking about swiching to plperl as it seems to me much more flexible and easier to create functions.
what is the recommended PL for postgres? or which one is most widely
used / most popular?
is there a performance difference between plpgsql and plperl ?
If what you're trying to do is "munge text," pl/perl will be a whole lot more suitable than pl/pgsql because it has a rich set of text mungeing tools and string functions which pl/pgsql lacks.
If you intend to do a lot of work involving reading unmunged tuples from this table and that, pl/pgsql provides a much more natural syntax, and will probably be a bit faster as the query processor may even be able to expand some of the actions, rather than needing to treat Perl code as an "opaque blob."
I would definitely be inclined to use the more natural language for
the given task...
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