Re: Can function results be used in WHERE?

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От Aaron Bono
Тема Re: Can function results be used in WHERE?
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Msg-id bf05e51c0607101302w271c7773tdec47e76b192f2c9@mail.gmail.com
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Ответ на Can function results be used in WHERE?  (Bryce Nesbitt <bryce1@obviously.com>)
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On 7/10/06, Bryce Nesbitt <bryce1@obviously.com> wrote:
I have a function, the results of which seem to apply to ORDER BY and
HAVING, but not to WHERE.  Is this expected?



-- Return distance in some mystery units (TODO: convert to miles or
kilometers)
CREATE FUNCTION calculate_distance(double precision, double precision,
double precision, double precision) RETURNS double precision
    AS '
BEGIN
    RETURN (3963 * acos( sin($1/57.2958) * sin($3/57.2958) +
cos($1/57.2958) * cos($3/57.2958) * cos($4/57.2958 - $2/57.2958) ));
END;
'
    LANGUAGE plpgsql;



demo=# select
pod_code,lat,lon,calculate_distance(lat,lon,37.789629,-122.422082) from
eg_pod where 4 > 5::double precision order by 4 limit 10;
pod_code |    lat    |     lon     | calculate_distance
----------+-----------+-------------+--------------------
       44 |         0 |           0 |                  0
       45 |         0 |           0 |                  0
       69 | 37.789629 | -122.422082 |                  0
       51 | 37.788166 | -122.421488 |  0.106273303754946
       71 | 37.794228 | -122.421382 |  0.320393524437476
       73 | 37.787878 | -122.411644 |  0.583267064983836
       37 | 37.791736 | -122.411604 |   0.590977027054446
       46 | 37.784929 | -122.412782 |  0.603416307249032
       50 | 37.780329 | -122.418482 |  0.672685350683496
       30 | 37.780419 | -122.417764 |  0.679355355047995
(10 rows)

sdemo=# select
pod_code,lat,lon,calculate_distance(lat,lon,37.789629,-122.422082) from
eg_pod having calculate_distance(lat,lon,37.789629,-122.422082) > 5
order by 4;
pod_code |    lat    |     lon     | calculate_distance
----------+-----------+-------------+--------------------
       21 | 37.710581 | -122.468864 |   6.03655070159813
       77 | 37.805427 |  -122.29528 |   7.01595024232628
       29 | 37.802684 | -122.275976 |     8.0364304687727
       12 | 37.806133 | -122.273827 |   8.18282157050301
       23 | 37.797327 |  -122.26598 |   8.54878571904839
       57 | 37.829592 | -122.266347 |   8.94791199923289
       35 | 37.809327 |  - 122.25448 |   9.26077996779577
       47 | 37.851957 | -122.270376 |   9.34292370436932



demo=# select version();
                                                  version
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PostgreSQL 7.4.12 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.2.3
20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-20)
(1 row)


First I recommend making your function IMMUTABLE since, given the same arguments, it gives the same result - this will allow PostgreSQL to optimize the function call and cache the results.  Then, don't use "4", use "calculate_distance(lat,lon, 37.789629,-122.422082)".  That use is very ambiguous and subject to breaking if you change the columns in your select.  It may also be the reason you have a problem though I don't use that syntax so cannot be sure.

The only difference between HAVING and WHERE is that WHERE occurs before a GROUP BY and HAVING occurs after.  Since you have no GROUP BY there should be no difference in the queries.  The only other difference is the "4 > 5::double precision" so that is where I would start.

-Aaron

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