Heavy function optimisation ?

From: "jg" <jg(at)rilk(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Heavy function optimisation ?
Date: 2012-12-20 20:26:17
Message-ID: 3010-50d37480-3d-6b8b4580@98418124
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Hi,

In a projet, I have an heavy fonction that double the time of the query.
I was surprised because the function was IMMUTABLE but no cache happens.
So I wrote a small test.

test.sql
---------------------------------------
\timing on

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION dum(a int)
RETURNS int
LANGUAGE SQL
STRICT IMMUTABLE
AS $$
SELECT pg_sleep(1);
SELECT 1000+$1;
$$;

SELECT dum(a) FROM (
SELECT 1::int AS a UNION ALL
SELECT 2::int AS a UNION ALL
SELECT 2::int AS a UNION ALL
SELECT 3::int AS a UNION ALL
SELECT 3::int AS a UNION ALL
SELECT 3::int AS a
) t;

WITH data AS (
SELECT 1::int AS a UNION ALL
SELECT 2::int AS a UNION ALL
SELECT 2::int AS a UNION ALL
SELECT 3::int AS a UNION ALL
SELECT 3::int AS a UNION ALL
SELECT 3::int AS a)
,map AS (SELECT a, dum(a) FROM data GROUP BY a)
SELECT m.dum FROM data AS d JOIN map AS m ON d.a=m.a;
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test=# \i test.sql
Timing is on.
CREATE FUNCTION
Time: 1.479 ms
dum
------
1001
1002
1002
1003
1003
1003
(6 rows)

Time: 6084.172 ms
a | dum
---+------
1 | 1001
2 | 1002
2 | 1002
3 | 1003
3 | 1003
3 | 1003
(6 rows)

Time: 3029.617 ms

I was expecting the first query takes only 3 seconds, because I was (wrongly) thinking the results of the computation of the function computation was cached.
So I emulate it with the WITH query to compute only one time by value the function dum.

Do you think, this optimisation may be added to the optimizer ?

--
Cordialement,
Jean-Gérard Pailloncy

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