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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