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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:35:00 +0900
From: Craig Ringer <craig@postnewspapers.com.au>
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To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: Repeated execution of identical subqueries
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Tom Lane wrote:
> No, not at the moment.  In principle the planner could look for such
> duplicates, but it'd be wasted cycles so much of the time that I'd be
> loath to do it.
>   
Good point - there are better places to spend time, and I imagine it'd 
be an expensive thing to check too.
> There is work afoot to implement the SQL:2003 "WITH" syntax, which
> I think would offer a syntactic solution to your problem.
Yes, it would. In fact, I was thinking about the syntax seen in some 
functional languages - like Haskell's `where' clause - that defines a 
subexpression available to all parts of the expression. If the SQL:2003 
WITH expression is anything like that it'd be very handy indeed.

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Craig Ringer