[kw-pm] cool: postgres server-side perl scripting

Matt Sergeant matt at sergeant.org
Tue Nov 15 06:37:53 PST 2005


On 14 Nov 2005, at 21:34, Daniel R. Allen wrote:

>> BTW: You can have perl functions in SQLite via DBD::SQLite too.
>
> Wow.  ...looking at the perldoc...  that's pretty neat.  I could 
> totally
> see that making database code cleaner.
>
> I gotta ask, does that slow things down much?

I have no idea :-) Probably - perl is stack based so every time you 
call a function you've got this context switch between the C side of 
things and the perl side of things, which isn't all that fast.

Matt.



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