Hello Michael,
thanks for the comments on my corrected function.
> You could make a proposal in pgsql-hackers but I think 8.3 is in
> feature freeze so don't expect to see it until 8.4, if it's accepted
> at all. There's always PgFoundry :-)
I'll now see how this performs in my application and if I'm satisfied
with this solution I'll post something on pgsql-hackers of pgfoundry.
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