Re: Re: Requests for Development

>     PL/pgSQL parses the entire function body at first call (per
>     backend). But the SPI querystrings for all the statements
>     aren't parsed at that time. It uses SPI_prepare() only for
>     expressions and queries that actually get executed, so that a
>     huge function that is called only once in a backend, erroring
>     out at the first IF, will not parse most of it's queries.
>     This is surely a win for performance, but it makes it
>     difficult to develop.

 Thanks  for the  explanation.  Although,  I can't  see  how this  improves
performance, I'll keep this in my mind when designing PL/PGSQL SPs.


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