Re: A Costly function + LIMIT

Chris Gamache <cgg007@yahoo.com> writes:
> It runs "widget" on 10000 records. The damage would be negligible if it could
> run on the 100... 

So do the function calculation outside the UNION/ORDER BY.

SELECT name, address, city, state, zip, widget(name, address, city, state,
zip)
FROM
((SELECT * FROM eastern_usa  ORDER BY state, city, zip, name  LIMIT 5000UNION ALL SELECT * FROM western_usa  ORDER BY
state,city, zip, name  LIMIT 5000)ORDER BY 4, 3, 5, 1 LIMIT 100 OFFSET 0) ss;
 

You might have to fool with the parenthesization a little to get it
to parse ...
        regards, tom lane