Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> Mario Splivalo <mario.spliv...@megafon.hr> writes:
>> Now I'm confused, why is 'sql' function much slower than 'direct' SELECT?
>
> Usually the reason for this is that the planner chooses a different plan
> when it has knowledge of the particular value you are searching for than
> when it does not.  I suppose 'service_id' has a very skewed distribution
> and you are looking for an uncommon value?

For a prepared statement, could the planner produce *several* plans,
if it guesses great sensitivity to the parameter values?  Then it
could choose amongst them at run time.

- FChE

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