Is EXECUTE slower than a direct assignment call?

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Vibhor Kumar [mailto:vibhor.ku...@enterprisedb.com]
>Sent: 1 mars 2011 18:24
>To: Pierre Racine
>Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
>Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Dynamic binding in plpgsql function
>
>
>On Mar 2, 2011, at 4:31 AM, Pierre Racine wrote:
>
>> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION ST_MyGeneralFunction(callback text)
>>    RETURNS SETOF geomval AS $$
>>    DECLARE
>>        x integer;
>>        y integer;
>>    BEGIN
>>        y := somecalculation;
>>        x := 'callback'(y);  --This is what I need
>>        RETURN x;
>>    END;
>>    $$ LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';
>>
>> I don't want to do an EXECUTE statement since I have no table to put after 
>> the FROM clause. I want
>to assign the resulting value directly to a variable like in my example.
>
>
>You don't need any table to assign value of function to Variable, if function 
>returning single value.
>You can use EXECUTE 'SELECT '||$1||'(y)' into x;
>
>Thanks & Regards,
>Vibhor Kumar
>EnterpriseDB Corporation
>The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
>vibhor.ku...@enterprisedb.com
>Blog:http://vibhork.blogspot.com


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