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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Dean Rasheed <dean_rasheed@hotmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Slow set-returning functions
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:30:35 -0500
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"Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure@gmail.com> writes:
> prepared statements have the same problem.  IIRC the planner assumes
> 10%, which will often drop to a seqscan or a bitmap index scan.  Some
> years back I argued (unsuccessfully) to have the planner guess 100
> rows or something like that.  Ideally, I think it would generate the
> plan from the value passed into the first invocation of the function.

I believe it's the case that that will happen now in the same contexts
where the planner uses the first value of any other parameter (ie,
unnamed statements in the extended-query protocol).

			regards, tom lane



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