| From: | "jg" <jg(at)rilk(dot)com> | 
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| 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
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\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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