PFC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If it were really expensive to derive bytecode from source text >> then maybe it'd make sense to do what you're doing, but surely that's >> not all that expensive. Everyone else manages to parse prosrc on the >> fly and cache the result in memory; why isn't plpython doing that?
> It depends on the number of imported modules in the function. If it > imports a lot of modules, it can take some time to compile a python > function (especially if the modules have some initialisation code which > must be run on import). Surely the initialization code would have to be run anyway ... and if the function does import a pile of modules, do you really want to cache all that in its pg_proc entry? What happens if some of the modules get updated later? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings