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* A Costly function + LIMIT
@ 2002-12-13 18:14 Chris Gamache <cgg007@yahoo.com>
  2002-12-13 18:20 ` Re: A Costly function + LIMIT Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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From: Chris Gamache @ 2002-12-13 18:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: pgsql-sql

PostgreSQL 7.2.3

I have a function that is quite costly to run on 1000's of records... Let's
call it "widget". 

I have a query

(SELECT name, address, city, state, zip, widget(name, address, city, state,
zip) 
FROM eastern_usa 
ORDER BY state, city, zip, name 
LIMIT 5000)

UNION ALL

(SELECT name, address, city, state, zip, widget(name, address, city, state,
zip) 
FROM western_usa 
ORDER BY state, city, zip, name 
LIMIT 5000)

ORDER BY 4, 3, 5, 1 LIMIT 100 OFFSET 0;

It runs "widget" on 10000 records. The damage would be negligible if it could
run on the 100... 

Any ideas?

CG

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* Re: A Costly function + LIMIT
  2002-12-13 18:14 A Costly function + LIMIT Chris Gamache <cgg007@yahoo.com>
@ 2002-12-13 18:20 ` Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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From: Tom Lane @ 2002-12-13 18:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cgg007@yahoo.com; +Cc: pgsql-sql

Chris Gamache <cgg007@yahoo.com> writes:
> It runs "widget" on 10000 records. The damage would be negligible if it could
> run on the 100... 

So do the function calculation outside the UNION/ORDER BY.

SELECT name, address, city, state, zip, widget(name, address, city, state,
zip)
FROM
((SELECT * FROM eastern_usa 
  ORDER BY state, city, zip, name 
  LIMIT 5000
 UNION ALL
  SELECT * FROM western_usa 
  ORDER BY state, city, zip, name 
  LIMIT 5000)
 ORDER BY 4, 3, 5, 1 LIMIT 100 OFFSET 0) ss;

You might have to fool with the parenthesization a little to get it
to parse ...

			regards, tom lane



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