Re: Is it considered good practice to use stored procedures for most tasks?

Gaetano Mendola <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Apr 2019 22:32:25 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.novice
Message-ID <CAJycT5rVL=Q8C-2J-iLKca0QQd_FgdA4RqGkLW8sH5OcKWUtGA@mail.gmail.com>
For sure do not allow your application to touch directly tables, use views
and sp, lately I'm abandoning views for table functions.

On Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 21:02 Simon Connah <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
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> I'm about to build a website using PostgreSQL and for the first time I
> am not going to be using an ORM. I want to do it manually because I want
> to take the time to learn to use PostgreSQL properly on its own. The
> question is should I use stored procedures for the majority of the
> database operations or should I just use ad hoc queries as and when I
> need them? The advantage I can see for stored procedures is that you can
> do complex queries just by calling a single function rather than having
> to make multiple queries to get the result that you need. Plus it keeps
> the majority of data handling code at the database level rather than in
> the application itself.
>
> I was wondering what the consensus was for this? Should I try and use
> stored procedures as much as possible or should I only use them for
> specific types of tasks?
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