Re: pg_proc probin misuse

Is there a TODO here?

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Tom Lane wrote:
> PFC <lists(at)peufeu(dot)com> 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
>
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