From: Steve Northamer <stevenorthamer@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: plpgsql function executed multiple times for each return value
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:59:28 -0400
Message-ID: <4E8DEC80.3010706@gmail.com> (raw)
We have a plpgsql function called paymentcalc, which calculates the
payment necessary to pay off a loan. It's defined like this:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION paymentcalc(IN amount numeric, IN
interestrate numeric, IN termmonths integer, IN paymentfreq integer, IN
dueday1 integer, IN dueday2 integer, IN borrowdate date, IN firstdue
date, IN gapins character, IN lifeins character, IN disabilityins
character, OUT payment numeric, OUT finalpayment numeric, OUT finaldue date)
RETURNS record AS
...
LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' STABLE;
We want to execute this function, with inputs from a table, and return
the calculated values as separate columns:
select (p).payment, (p).finalpayment, (p).finaldue
from
(select paymentcalc(amount, interestrate / 100, termmonths,
paymentfreq, dueday1, dueday2,
borrowdate, firstdue, gapins, lifeins, disins) as p
from apps
where id = 100) s
This works, but using "RAISE NOTICE" we've determined that this executes
the paymentcalc function 3 times! It seems to execute the function once
for each return value. The function is time consuming, and we want to
execute it only once.
Thinking that maybe a table returning function would work better, we
tried this:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION paymentcalc2(IN amount numeric, IN
interestrate numeric, IN termmonths integer, IN paymentfreq integer, IN
dueday1 integer, IN dueday2 integer, IN borrowdate date, IN firstdue
date, IN gapins character, IN lifeins character, IN disabilityins character)
RETURNS SETOF paymentcalc_return AS
...
LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' STABLE;
However, we now have difficulty trying to send parameters from a table
as inputs to this function. We want to do something like:
select *
from paymentcalc2(amount, interestrate / 100, termmonths, paymentfreq,
dueday1, dueday2,
borrowdate, firstdue, gapins, lifeins, disins)
from apps
where id = 100
But obviously this query won't work with two "from"s. We can't do a
join between paymentcalc2 and apps, because we get "invalid reference to
FROM-clause entry for table apps".
So my questions are: 1) How do we cause the paymentcalc function to be
executed only once? and 2) How do we call a table returning function
with inputs from a table?
Thank you very much!
Steve
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