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Tom Lane wrote: > PFC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> If it were really expensive to derive bytecode from source text > >> then maybe it'd make sense to do what you're doing, but surely that's > >> not all that expensive. Everyone else manages to parse prosrc on the > >> fly and cache the result in memory; why isn't plpython doing that? > > > It depends on the number of imported modules in the function. If it > > imports a lot of modules, it can take some time to compile a python > > function (especially if the modules have some initialisation code which > > must be run on import). > > Surely the initialization code would have to be run anyway ... and if > the function does import a pile of modules, do you really want to cache > all that in its pg_proc entry? What happens if some of the modules get > updated later? > > regards, tom lane > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings > -- Bruce Momjian http://candle.pha.pa.us EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
