Re: FUNC_MAX_ARGS benchmarks

Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info> writes:
> On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 10:39:47AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Actually, plpgsql is pretty expensive too.  The thing to be benchmarking
>> is applications of plain old built-in-C functions and operators.

> I thought part of the justification for this was for the OpenACS
> guys; don't they write everything in TCL?

Not relevant.  The concern about increasing FUNC_MAX_ARGS is the
overhead it might add to existing functions that don't need any
more arguments.  Worst case for that (percentagewise) will be
small built-in functions, like say int4add.

			regards, tom lane