> What makes the db slow is throwing bad sql at it, not Stored Procs
Absolute statements are absolutely wrong. :)
Particularly with DBs like PostgreSQL where you can (and people do) run Python scripts as stored procs. Great way to slow down your DB.
That is not much info :)
Just for reference: a simple query by pk index on my veryveryvery low end pc¹ on a table with 1mil rows takes about 0.04 ms (so says pgsql analyze). That is 25000 queries per second. What type of app are we talking here where the db needs to scale? Something like reddit? Stackoverflow? Just curious. Never saw such a beast where a DB server needs that much power. Where I work we have 200 apps on the same DB server, and it's idling most of the time.
¹i5 CPU 2.40GHz with 2GB of RAM
> run Python scripts as stored procs. Great way to slow down your DB.
There is more than one way to shoot yourself in the foot :)