Re: What does this tell me?

Josh Berkus wrote:
> What the function is doing is a succession of data cleanup procedures,
> updating the same table about 50 times.  I will be very thankful for
> the day when I can commit within a procedure.

If that's the case, can you split the work up into multiple functions, and 
execute them all from a shell script? Or perhaps even offload some of the data 
massaging to perl or something? (It would be easier to recommend alternate 
approaches with more details.)

Joe