I guess I'll take a good look at the existing implementations.
All the best
Seref
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:24 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
On 8/7/13 10:43 AM, Seref Arikan wrote: > When a pl/python based function is invoked, does it keep a python > runtime running across calls to same function? That is, if I use > connection pooling, can I save on the python runtime initialization and > loading costs?
The Python interpreter is initialized once during a session, normally when the first PL/Python function is called. So yes, connection pooling can be helpful here.
> Are there any documents/books etc you'd recommend to get a good > understanding of extending postgres with languages like python? I'd > really like to get a good grip of the architecture of this type of > extension, and possibly attempt to introduce a language of my own > choosing. The docs I've seen so far are mostly too specific, making it a > bit for hard for me to see the forest from the trees.
