Re: Using LIMIT 1 in plpgsql PERFORM statements

On 10/23/2005 04:02:35 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Karl,
>
> > PERFORM 1 FROM foo;
> > IF FOUND THEN ...
> >
> > is any slower than:
> >
> > PERFORM 1 FROM foo LIMIT 1;
> > IF FOUND THEN ...
>
> I'm wondering in what context it makes sense to call PERFORM on a
> constant.

If you want to find out if the table has any rows.
I'm really interested in what happens when
there's a WHERE qualification.  I want to find
out if there's any of some particular sort of row.
But I figured it wasn't worth putting that into
the example because I didn't have anything
specific to put in the WHERE clause.  I suppose
I should have put it in anyway and followed with ....

Karl <kop@meme.com>
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