On May 16, 2006, at 18:29, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

>> Yes, but there are definitely programming cases where memoization/
>> caching definitely helps. And it's easy to tell for a given
>> function whether or not it really helps by simply trying it with
>> CACHED and without.
>> Would this be a simple thing to implement?
>
> It's called a "table"

http://www.justatheory.com/computers...es/postgresql/
higher_order_plpgsql.html

Yes, I know. :-P But it'd be easier to have a CACHED keyword, of course.

Best,

David

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