Re: Query timing increased from 3s to 55s when used as a function instead of select

From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tyler Hildebrandt <tyler(at)campbell-lange(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Query timing increased from 3s to 55s when used as a function instead of select
Date: 2010-05-25 14:55:39
Message-ID: AANLkTingJVG2Kn6g2YDjOu7O_2Upmg9VXCh-WthwLej8@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Tyler Hildebrandt
<tyler(at)campbell-lange(dot)net> wrote:
>> I think, your problem is here:
>>
>> SELECT INTO current_user * FROM
>> fn_medirota_validate_rota_master(in_currentuser);
>>
>>
>> The planner has no knowledge about how many rows this functions returns
>> if he don't know the actual parameter. Because of this, this query
>> enforce a seq-scan. Try to rewrite that to something like:
>>
>> execute 'select * from fn_medirota_validate_rota_master(' ||
>> in_currentuser' || ')' into current_user
>>
>
> Thanks for your response.  This doesn't seem to solve our issue, unfortunately.
>
> As a side to that, we have the fn_medirota_validate_rota_master calls in a
> large amount of our other functions that are running very well.

any chance of seeing the function source?

merlin

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