On Monday 01 March 2004 01:04, Stephen Howard wrote: > I've got a moderately complex function defined which i then want to be > > able to test the value of, as well as select the value: > > select id, vector_cosine(document,'[ qw( foo,bar,baz )]') as threshold > from search_vectorspace where threshold > 0 order by threshold desc;
Can't be done that way, I'm afraid. The aliasing is defined as occuring after the where clause has been evaluated. However, you can mark functions as immutable/stable/volatile which can allow PG to cache the query results. See the manuals (CREATE FUNCTION) for details. -- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly