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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Richard Ray <rray@mstc.state.ms.us>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Query is fast and function is slow
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:40:26 -0500
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Richard Ray <rray@mstc.state.ms.us> writes:
> On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Thomas Pundt wrote:
>> Just a guess: is the column "doc_num" really of type text? Maybe using "text"
>> in the function lets the planner choose a sequential scan?

> Actually "doc_num" is char(9)
> I changed text to char(9) and got same slow results

You need to make the second argument type "name", too, if you have a lot
of users.

			regards, tom lane



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