On 20/01/2012 12:43, Brice Maron wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i've discovered something kind of weird while developing my app...
> I was trying to fetch some records in a table using a function immutable.
> In my interface it was really slow and while i was in a psql it was
> really fast ...
>
> After some research i've found out that it was caused by the bind
> parameter "forcing" the immutable function to execute each time my
> query gets a record.
>
> while i know that the value can't be known at planning time the
> difference between the binded / not binded is quite enormous...
>
> i've isolated a test case here....
>
> https://gist.github.com/e93792540cb3a68054c9
>
> (it happens at least in pg 8.4 and 9.1.2)
>
>
> What do you think about it... bug? feature? how can i avoid it?
How about:
PREPARE test (varchar) as select * from test where a = $1;
EXECUTE test(test_immutable(1));
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