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From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Igor Schtein <ischtein@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Performance of SQL Function versus View
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:30:00 -0400
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On 04/03/2012 10:21 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
>
> You should probably test this in your environment, but I'd expect the
> view to be better.  Wrapping logic inside PL/pgsql functions
> needlessly rarely turn outs to be a win.



Right, But also note that auto_explain is very useful in getting plans 
and times of queries nested in functions which can't easily be got 
otherwise.

cheers

andrew



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