Re: [HACKERS] spurious function execution in prepared statements.

On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:45:51AM -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> Now, if the same query is executed as a prepared statement,
> prepare ps(...) as select f(t.c) from t where [expr] limit 1;
> execute ps;
>
> now, if ps ends up using a index scan on t, everything is ok.  However,
> if ps does a seqscan, f executes for every row on t examined until the
> [expr] criteria is met.  Is this a bug?  If necessary I should be able
> to set up a reproducible example.  The easy workaround is to not use
> prepared statements in these situations, but I need to be able to
> guarantee that f only executes once (even if that means exploring
> subqueries).


Here's another workaround that may let you use a prepared statement:

prepare ps(...) as
select f(c) from (select c from t where [expr] limit 1) as t1

-Mike