From: Surfing <onlinesurfing@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Efficiency Problem
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:15:18 +0100
Message-ID: <5145A5C6.9000703@gmail.com> (raw)
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Hi all,
I'm composing a query from a web application of type:
*SELECT * FROM table WHERE a_text_field LIKE replace_something
('%**/a_given_string/**%');*
The function replace_something( ... ) is a stored procedure that
replaces some particular characters with others.
The problem is that I noticed that this query is inefficient... and I
think that the replace_something ( ... ) function is called for each row
of the table.
This observation is motivated by the fact that it takes around 30
seconds to execute on the table (of about 25,000 rows), whereas if I
execute:
*SELECT * FROM table WHERE a_text_field LIKE
'**/pre_processed_string/**//**';*
where/pre_processed_string///is the result of the application of
replace_something ('%/a_given_string/%') it just takes 164ms.
The execution of
*SELECT replace_something ('%**/a_given_string/**%')*
takes only 14ms.
Summarizing,
- Replace function: 14ms
- SELECT query without replace function: 164ms
- SELECT query with replace function: 30.000ms
Morever, I cannot create a stored procedure that precalculate the
/pre_processed_string /and executes the query, since I dinamically
compose other conditions in the WHERE clause.
Any suggestion?
Thank you.
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