Re: FUNC_MAX_ARGS benchmarks

>>>>> "Marc" == Marc G Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> writes:

    Marc> On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
    >> 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?

    Marc> Nope, the OpenACS stuff relies on plpgsql functions ... the
    Marc> 'TCL' is the web pages themselves, vs using something like
    Marc> PHP ... I may be wrong, but I do not believe any of the
    Marc> functions are in TCL ...

That's true.  We have intentionally avoided adding pl/tcl functions
into the db.  The postgresql db stuff relies extensively on plpgsql,
while the oracle db stuff relies on pl/sql to provide equivalent
functionality. 

On the other hand, all of the web server stuff is implemented on Aolserver
which uses Tcl as a scripting language.

Regards,

Dan