Re: [HACKERS] query optimization with UDFs

2006-10-14 Thread Markus Schaber
Hi, Tom, Tom Lane wrote: Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW, I think it would make sense to implement a limited subset of the xfunc ideas: add options to CREATE FUNCTION to allow cost information to be specified, and then take advantage of this information instead of using the

Re: [HACKERS] query optimization with UDFs

2006-10-14 Thread Tom Lane
Markus Schaber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: The trick is to figure out what a useful parameterized cost model would look like. IIRC, the main reason the xfunc code rotted on the vine was that its cost parameters didn't seem to be either easy to select or powerful in predicting

Re: [HACKERS] query optimization with UDFs

2006-10-10 Thread Tom Lane
Neil Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BTW, I think it would make sense to implement a limited subset of the xfunc ideas: add options to CREATE FUNCTION to allow cost information to be specified, and then take advantage of this information instead of using the existing constant kludges. This

Re: [HACKERS] query optimization with UDFs

2006-10-09 Thread Neil Conway
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 22:49 -0400, jungmin shin wrote: Does anybody know what the Postgres does for optimizing the queries with UDFs? The optimizer considers function volatility to avoid reevaluating UDFs needlessly, and to use index scans on predicates involving a function. Also, functions