| From: | Bill Moran <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | cacheable stored functions? |
| Date: | 2004-02-20 15:35:32 |
| Message-ID: | 40362944.2060809@potentialtech.com |
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I'm converting a SQL application to PostgreSQL. The majority of the logic
in this application is in the stored functions in the database.
Somewhere, I saw a reference to "WITH (iscachable)" for stored functions,
looking again, I'm unable to find any reference to this directive. I have
a single function that is _obviously_ safe to cache using this, and it
generates no errors or problems that I can see.
Now I'm looking at a lot of other functions that, if cached, would speed
up performance considerably. Yet I'm reluctant to use this directive
since I can't find documentation on it anywhere.
Can anyone say whether this is a supported feature in plpgsql, and is
safe to use? Is it simply undocumented, or am I just looking in the
wrong place?
(to reduce ambiguity, the manner in which I'm using this is:
CREATE FUNCTION getconstant(VARCHAR)
RETURNS int
AS '
DECLARE
BEGIN
IF $1 = ''phrase'' THEN
RETURN 1;
END IF;
...
END;
' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' WITH (iscacheable);
--
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com
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