Re: Does iscachable work?

If "entityid" has a lot of unique values, you won't
get much gain from caching.  My experience is that the
gain can be stunning in cases where there are few
distinct values in a column.  The best way to know the
benefit in a given case is to test it.

If your function is highly computation-intensive, or
(for example) makes selects against the database that
require full table scans, then you will see slow
results no matter what.

--- root <ffabrizio@exchange.webmd.net> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm running PostgreSQL 7.1.3, and I have a query
> that uses one of my
> functions:
>
> select findregion(entityid) from msg200;
>
> The findregion function is set to be 'with
> (iscachable)'.  However, the
> query takes upwards of 40 seconds to run,
> consistently.  The table only
> has 20000 rows or so.  It doesn't seem like the
> caching is working.
>
> The only other time I tried to use function results
> caching, it actually
> consistently increased my execution time.  Anything
> I need to be doing
> differently?
>
> Thanks,
> Fran
>
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