Re: strange bug in plperl - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: strange bug in plperl
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Msg-id 40E981B0.6040707@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: strange bug in plperl  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: strange bug in plperl  (elein <elein@varlena.com>)
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Tom Lane wrote:

>Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>>Can anyone suggest why I might be seeing this effect (each notice comes 
>>out once per row plus once per function call)
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>It looks like you're executing the whole function body once per physical
>call, which is certainly not a good plan for a function returning set.
>Once you get to the RETURN statement, you probably want to stash away
>the array value and then just return elements of it on successive calls,
>without reexecuting any user code.
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Yep. I had come to that conclusion.

cheers

andrew


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