Performance: Perl-DBI vs. PG Stored Procedures

From: David Link <dlink(at)soundscan(dot)com>
To: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Performance: Perl-DBI vs. PG Stored Procedures
Date: 2001-11-20 16:10:01
Message-ID: 3BFA8059.95E29280@soundscan.com
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Hi,

Could there be performance gains by using PG stored procedures rather
than using generic Perl DBI programs?

Namely for a task that loops thru a cursor of several 50,000 rows and
does UPDATES or INSERTS back into that same table. It is takes hours.

Thanks, David

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