Thread: Two questions about stored procedures

Hello,

I've two questions about stored procedures :

First of all, I've more or less 200 procedures and I wish to store
theses procedures inside packages (like Oracle PL/SQL packages). I see
that feature is in the TODO list, but is this feature is currently under
development or not ? Or is this feature is planned for a precise release
? (maybe 7.4 ???).

Second question : Once I've put a stored procedure, is the procedure is
recompiled every time before the execution or is the stored procedure
compiled one time when being recorded ? Please note that I dont make use
of NOW() in theses stored procedure.

Thanks in advance for all the time you spend in the development of this
really good DBMS ! :-)

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Bruno BAGUETTE - bruno.baguette@netcourrier.com

Bruno Baguette wrote:
> First of all, I've more or less 200 procedures and I wish to store
> theses procedures inside packages (like Oracle PL/SQL packages). I see
> that feature is in the TODO list, but is this feature is currently under
> development or not ? Or is this feature is planned for a precise release
> ? (maybe 7.4 ???).

No one is working on it and there is no schedule for completion.  Patch?  :-)

> Second question : Once I've put a stored procedure, is the procedure is
> recompiled every time before the execution or is the stored procedure
> compiled one time when being recorded ? Please note that I dont make use
> of NOW() in theses stored procedure.

PL/pgSQL is compiled the first time it is run in the session.  You can
use EXECUTE if you need a query to be reparsed every time, but now() is
automatically handled properly.

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