Federico Travaglini <federico.travaglini@aubay.it> writes:
> This funcion in used as a column in a select on about 400k records
> If I leave the highlighted row it takes 27 seconds, otherwise 14 seconds!
> Such behaviour looks not to be reasonable.
It's not at all clear which line you think is the "highlighted" one.
However, I'm guessing that this SQL function is a candidate for
inlining, so you might try comparing EXPLAIN VERBOSE output for
the query with both forms of the function. Perhaps that will
yield some insight into what's expensive.
regards, tom lane
