..horribly documented, inefficient, user-hostile, impossible to maintain interpreted language..

From: Martin Gainty <mgainty(at)hotmail(dot)com>
To: <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: ..horribly documented, inefficient, user-hostile, impossible to maintain interpreted language..
Date: 2011-04-04 19:07:38
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..horribly documented, inefficient, user-hostile, impossible to maintain interpreted language..
to whom might you be alluding to
???

Martin
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> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 09:57:11 -0700
> From: pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com
> To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Trigger vs web service
>
> On 04/04/11 8:47 AM, Marc-André Goderre wrote:
> >
> > 1- Program a trigger function detecting the orginal insert, split the
> > string and fill the other field.
> >
> > 2- Program a web service for receiving the string, split it and insert
> > the informations in the db.
> >
> > Witch is the fastest one (in performance).
> >
>
> I would expect parsing and splitting your string into fields before
> handing it to SQL would be faster than handing it into SQL, then using a
> trigger to hack it into 2 fields. This would, of course, at least
> partially depend on what sort of language that web service is written
> in, if its in some hypothetical horribly inefficient interpreted
> language, all bets are off.
>
> Does all your data go through a web service now? if not, what data
> path IS it coming from?
>
>
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