[wp-hackers] Google SoC: PostgreSQL port

[Matt Mullenweg]

Matt wrote:
> Doing a replace of the queries on the fly wouldn't be preferable. It would
> be laggy and slow down the page loading time. I like the way I mentioned,
> that way people can just go and make a file with different functions in it
> and then put the appropriate DB queries inside the functions. Maybe there's
> another way of doing it though...

We do thousands of preg operations on every page load. There are going 
to be 10-30 queries on a page, so 10-30 pregs isn't going to make any 
perceptible difference.

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