2013/1/31 Vincent Veyron <vv.lists@wanadoo.fr>:
> Le jeudi 31 janvier 2013 à 09:49 +0100, Pavel Stehule a écrit :
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>> any join where result is related to some function result can be very
>> slow, because estimation will be out and any repeated function
>> evaluation is just expensive.
>>
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> Hi Pavel,
>
> Thank you for the correction. Since we're at it, I have a question
> regarding functions in a query :
>
> Suppose I have a query of the form
>
> SELECT my_function(column_1), column_2
> FROM my_table
> GROUP BY my_function(column_1)
> ORDER BY my_function(column_1);
>
> where my_function is a user defined function.
>
> How many times is the function computed?
if function is stable or immutable, then once per row
Pavel
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