Re: Are stored procedures pre-compiled?

On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 23:11, Tom Lane wrote:
> Neil Conway <nconway(at)klamath(dot)dyndns(dot)org> writes:
> > On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 22:15, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> I believe that SQL-language functions don't have any such optimization
> >> at all :-( ... I think they are re-parsed and re-planned from scratch
> >> on each call.
>
> > Would it be possible to enhance SQL-language functions to cache their
> > query plan?
>
> Certainly; if plpgsql can do it, so can SQL functions. You could even
> steal (or better, find a way to share) a lot of the code from plpgsql.
> But no one's gotten around to it.

Okay, I'll take a look at this and see if I can implement it.

Bruce, can you add this to do the TODO list (it may be there already, I
just couldn't see it), and add me as responsible for it? Thanks.

Cheers,

Neil

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