Re: View columns calculated - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Enrico Weigelt
Subject Re: View columns calculated
Date
Msg-id 20050324134805.GC31203@nibiru.borg.metux.de
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In response to Re: View columns calculated  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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* Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Peter Darley" <pdarley@kinesis-cem.com> writes:
> >     I have a question about views:  I want to have a fairly wide view (lots of
> > columns) where most of the columns have some heavyish calculations in them,
> > but I'm concerned that it will have to calculate every column even when I'm
> > not selecting them.  So, the question is, if I have 5 columns in a view but
> > only select 1 column, is the system smart enough to not calculate the unused
> > columns,
>
> It depends on what the rest of your view looks like.  If the view is
> simple enough to be "flattened" into the parent query then the unused
> columns will disappear into the ether.  If it's not flattenable then
> they will get evaluated.  You can check by seeing whether an EXPLAIN
> shows a separate "subquery scan" node corresponding to the view.
> (Without bothering to look at the code, an unflattenable view is one
> that uses GROUP BY, DISTINCT, aggregates, ORDER BY, LIMIT, UNION,
> INTERSECT, EXCEPT, probably a couple other things.)

What about functions ?
I'm using several (immutable) functions for mapping IDs to names, etc.


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