Hannu Krosing wrote:
>>
>> Neither of these would be the same as using plperl's %_SHARED, which I
>> gather is what is being done.
>>
>
> He asked for a method to get/set a shared value "with best performance"
> and updating a table row seems about twice as fast as calling a plperl
> function.
>
>
>> But using a temp table would be.
>>
>
> You can't access temp table from several sessions, which is what I think
> they want.
>
>
Well, neither is %_SHARED shared across backends, so if that's what they
want I'm wondering what exactly they are doing. Maybe using plperlu to
talk to some shared memory, or memcached, or some such.
cheers
andrew
