Re: arrays of floating point numbers / linear algebra operations into the DB

From: Enrico Sirola <enrico(dot)sirola(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
Cc: Colin Wetherbee <cww(at)denterprises(dot)org>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org General" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: arrays of floating point numbers / linear algebra operations into the DB
Date: 2008-02-01 21:21:11
Message-ID: 780B80FE-BFD8-4B32-8C24-F356F92F0B6D@gmail.com
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Hi Joe,

> I don't know if the speed will meet your needs, but you might test
> to see if PL/R will work for you:
>
> http://www.joeconway.com/plr/
>
> You could use pg.spi.exec() from within the R procedure to grab the
> arrays, do all of your processing inside R (which uses whatever BLAS
> you've set it up to use), and then return the result out to Postgres.

Thanks a lot for the hint, I'll give it a try. It also will be much
easier to implement a prototype :-)
Bye,
e.

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