Josh Berkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmmm ... this does still seem to show that plpgsql is 10% slower in > 7.4.
Yeah, I just did some profiling to check on that, and it seems there is extra overhead in plpgsql's exec_eval_simple_expr(), to the tune of another palloc or two down inside CreateExprContext(). This probably would not show up so heavily in a more complex plpgsql function, but it's a noticeable percentage in this trivial example. I had noticed this before but I'm not sure there's any easy solution. Awhile back I looked at saving the exprcontext across calls instead of creating and deleting it on each call to exec_eval_simple_expr, but the idea broke down in situations involving recursive plpgsql functions. I'll take another look though. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]