Re: multiple CREATE FUNCTION AS items for PLs

> On 12/28/2012 09:15 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> An alternative that has some amount of precedent in the Python world
>> would be to use comment pragmas, like this: ...
>> This way we could get this done fairly easily without any new
>> infrastructure outside the language handler.

+1 for not cluttering the generic CREATE FUNCTION syntax for this.
I note the parallel to plpgsql's #option syntax, too.

Hannu Krosing <hannu@krosing.net> writes:
> To make this fast also for old-style functions, we should store compiled 
> bytecode (.pyc) in
> database as well, perhaps putting it in pg_proc.probin as a base64 
> encoded string (probin
> is not used fro non-C functions) or adding a new bytea column 
> pg_proc.procode especially for this.

That might or might not be worth doing.  In the absence of evidence that
plpython byte-compiling represents significant overhead for normal use,
it sounds a lot like premature optimization to me.  In any case, it
should certainly not be done as part of the same patch Peter is thinking
about.
        regards, tom lane