On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Michael Fuhr wrote:
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:58:13AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
Does anyone know of, or have, any comparisions of the overhead going with
something like pl/perl or pl/php vs using pl/pgsql?
Benchmark results will probably depend on the type of processing
you're doing. I'd expect PL/pgSQL to be faster at database operations
like looping through query results, and other languages to be faster
at non-database operations like text munging and number crunching,
depending on the particular language's strengths.
[Does quick test.]
Whale oil beef hooked. PL/pgSQL just outran PL/Perl when I expected
the latter to win. Hang on, let me play with it until it comes back
with the results I want....
'k, let's repharase the questions :)
Overall, I'd expect pl/pgsql to have less overhead, since its "built into"
the server ... in the case of something like pl/php or pl/perl, assuming
that I don't use any external modules, is it just as 'built in', or am I
effectively calling an external interpreter each time I run that function?
For instance, if there wasn't something like to_char() (thanks for
pointing that one out), then i could write a simple pl/perl function that
'simulated it', but itself did no db queries just a simple:
RETURN sprintf("%04d", intval);
Don't know if that made much more sense ... ?
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