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In response to Re: Languages and Functions  (Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>)
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>> 2. Is there any performance or other advantage to using PL/pgsql over
>> Pl/Perl or Python?

    Yes, if you want to loop over large amounts of data (FOR row IN SELECT)
plpgsql will be faster since it does not have to convert the data from
postgres to python/perl format.

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