Andriy I Pilipenko <bamby@marka.net.ua> writes:
> create function func() returns int as 'select 1' language 'sql';
> set enable_seqscan to 'off';
> explain select * from t where f = 1;
> Index Scan using i on t (cost=0.00..2.01 rows=1 width=4)
> explain select * from t where f = func();
> Seq Scan on t (cost=100000000.00..100000001.34 rows=1 width=4)
Not a bug, because you didn't declare the function 'iscachable'.
For all the system knows, func() is like random() and will return a
different result at every row. An indexscan can't be used unless it's
safe to fold the function call down to a constant. See
http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.0/postgres/sql-createfunction.htm
regards, tom lane
