how to replace multiple words at once in postgresql

to replace multiple words, i'm using looping thru all candidates, and replacing one by one. is there a better way?

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION "myReplace"(text, _varchar, _varchar) RETURNS "pg_catalog"."text" AS 
$BODY$
DECLARE
    i INT;
    result TEXT;
BEGIN
    result = $1;
    FOR i IN 1 .. ARRAY_LENGTH( $2, 1 ) LOOP
        result = REPLAC开发者_运维百科E( result, $2[ i ], $3[ i ] );
    END LOOP;

    RETURN RESULT;
END
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LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';

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Besides making it STABLE and STRICT, and switching to using pl/perl or C, there isn't much optimization you can do to make this any faster.