Hi there, I try to execute the following statement:
SELECT * FROM ( SELECT "MY_FUNCTION_A"(bp."COL_A", NULL::boolean) AS ALIAS_A FROM "TABLE_A" bp JOIN "TABLE_B" pn ON bp."COL_B" = pn."PK_ID" JOIN "TABLE_C" vbo ON bp."COL_C" = vbo."PK_ID" WHERE pn."Editor"::text ~~ 'Some%'::text AND bp."COL_A" IS NOT NULL AND bp."COL_A"::text <> ''::text ) x WHERE (x.ALIAS_A::text ) IS NULL; The problem is the excution plan first make Seq Scan on "TABLE_A", with Filter: (("COL_A" IS NOT NULL) AND (("COL_A")::text <> ''::text) AND (("MY_FUNCTION_A"("COL_A", NULL::boolean))::text IS NULL))". This way, MY_FUNCTION_A crashes for some unsupported data provided by "COL_A". I'd like to get an execution plan which is filtering first the desired rows, and just after that compute te column value "MY_FUNCTION_A"(bp."COL_A", NULL::boolean). I made different combinations, including a subquery like: SELECT * FROM ( SELECT "MY_FUNCTION_A"(y."COL_A", NULL::boolean) AS ALIAS_A FROM ( SELECT bp."COL_A" FROM "TABLE_A" bp JOIN "TABLE_B" pn ON bp."COL_B" = pn."PK_ID" JOIN "TABLE_C" vbo ON bp."COL_C" = vbo."PK_ID" WHERE pn."COL_E"::text ~~ 'Some%'::text AND bp."COL_A" IS NOT NULL AND bp."COL_A"::text <> ''::text ) y ) x WHERE (x.ALIAS_A::text ) IS NULL; but postgres analyze is too 'smart' and optimize it as in the previous case, with the same Seq Scan on "TABLE_A", and with the same filter. I thought to change the function MY_FUNCTION_A, to support any argument data, but the even that another performance problem will be rised when the function will be computed for any row in join, even those that can be removed by other filter. Do you have a solution please ? TIA Sabin -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql