On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 09:45:51AM -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote: > Now, if the same query is executed as a prepared statement, > prepare ps(...) as select f(t.c) from t where [expr] limit 1; > execute ps; > > now, if ps ends up using a index scan on t, everything is ok. However, > if ps does a seqscan, f executes for every row on t examined until the > [expr] criteria is met. Is this a bug? If necessary I should be able > to set up a reproducible example. The easy workaround is to not use > prepared statements in these situations, but I need to be able to > guarantee that f only executes once (even if that means exploring > subqueries).
Here's another workaround that may let you use a prepared statement: prepare ps(...) as select f(c) from (select c from t where [expr] limit 1) as t1 -Mike ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
