"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> What about the memory size overhead it adds to every postgres process?

AFAIK, on all modern OSes there's no significant performance penalty
for code that's nominally part of your address space but is never
actually swapped in/executed.

			regards, tom lane

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