Re: Good Optimization

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> Hi, Bruce,
> 
> I've only just picked up the thread on optimizations (I get the digest for
> the pgsql-sql list).  I really feel that a lot of effort could be saved with
> some good benefits if a stored proc mechanism is put into place.  Once that
> has been done, it can be used to store temporary plans (procedures) for
> ad-hoc queries which are released on the termination of the connection.
> However, I think that a lot of users will develop stored procs to replace a
> lot of their existing common SQL, in order to (partially) optimize their
> systems.  Perhaps in the PREPARE statement we could add a facility to allow
> the user to specify the TTL of the cached proc for an ad-hoc query.
> 
> When I talk about stored procs, I don't mean functions.  We already have
> those.  I mean procedures that are able to return a rowset.  Just to make
> sure nobody gets the wrong idea.

Not sure why our functions can't return tuples.

> Also, has anything happened about the idea to get PG to cluster (somebody
> mentioned Beowulf)?

No one has mentioned this.

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