Split conditions on relations

From: Jim Nasby <jim(dot)nasby(at)openscg(dot)com>
To: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Split conditions on relations
Date: 2017-03-16 04:43:04
Message-ID: 1add3cd0-75a9-61d9-2856-cc529bad0e16@openscg.com
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I've got a customer that is running a pretty expensive function as part
of a WHERE clause. With or without the function, the table the function
references is the inner-most of a series of nested loops. Without the
function things are very fast, but adding the function increases the
cost of the index scan on that table by a factor of ~80x. It also
falsely skews the row estimate further down, causing a bad shift to
materialization in another part of the query, but that's a different
problem. Wrapping the majority of the query in an OFFSET 0 with the
function call on the outside makes things fast again.

It'd be nice if function execution could be delayed to a higher level of
a query based on the cost.
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Jim Nasby, Chief Data Architect, OpenSCG
http://OpenSCG.com

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