Excellent idea. Yes, I would prefer to write in plpgsql. My next concern then, is, does Postgres, perform some kind of Load Balancing.
Well, you can have multiple clients running queries at the same time.
I dont want the stored procedure once run, to DOS other users, who are running reports.. or perform queries using some application. The reason for asking, is I plan on taking, 350 000 rows, and transforming them, into hopefully about 50% smaller number (in a new schema) It is critical, that I dont DOS the database server, because it is being used in a PRODUCTION enviroment
Well, if you need to lock resources used by other users then they could be delayed then. Otherwise, you'll need to test and see if your production server has enough capacity to run your simultaneous queries fast enough.
-- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd
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