Re: Versionning (was: Whole-row comparison)

On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 09:07:10PM +0300, christian.roche.ext@nsn.com wrote:
>  
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> I must admit I don't really understand what you say.  I don't know what
> SRF stand for, and what you say about generic case is not clear to me,
> sorry.

Sorry, it stands for set returning function.  I thought someone
upthread suggested that instead of a view.

> and the following statement would be optimized:
> 
> UPDATE param_table SET ver_id = xxx;
> SELECT * FROM bsc_view WHERE obj_id = yyy; 
> 
> which would not be the case would I have used a multi-row function.
> 
> Does this make sense ?

Yes, but I don't think it's true.  Because you change the value of
ver_id all the time, the actual result can't be collapsed to a
constant, so you end up having to execute the query with the
additional value, and you still have to plan that.  The same thing is
true of a function, which will have its plan prepared the first time
you execute it.  (I could be wrong about this; I suppose the only way
would be to try it.)

A
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