Joe, > Yes, I believe so (well, actually the optimizer). An inlined SQL > function ends up behaving like a macro that expands at run time and is > therefore quite fast -- no function call overhead at all.
... but only in 7.4. In 7.2 and I think in 7.3 this was not implemented. While we're on the topic, anyone know any good ways to speed up EXECUTE statements in PL/pgSQL functions? -- -Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly