On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 01:22:42PM -0800, Mike wrote: > My question is- is there anyway, since a call to sp_host('10.0.0.1') will > always > return the same value (the primary key/sequence value from the ip_addresses > table), to cache/index that value somehow, so anytime I ever call that same > function, with the same argument, it returns a cached/indexed value?
Some procedural languages (PL/Tcl, PL/Python; also PL/Perl in 8.0) have global data that you could use as a cache. The function would still be called each time, but you could at least use the cache to save the cost of a database query. -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly