Re: Re: Patch to add functionality to specify ORDER BY in CREATE FUNCTION for SRFs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com> writes:
> Related... I'd like to see a way to inline a function that does something like:

> CREATE FUNCTION foo(text) RETURNS int LANGUAGE sql AS $$
> SELECT a FROM b WHERE lower(b.c) = lower($1)
> $$

The reason that's not inlined ATM is that the semantics wouldn't be the
same (ie, what happens if the SELECT returns more than one row).  It's
possible they would be the same if we attached a LIMIT 1 to the function's
query, but I'm not 100% sure about that offhand.  I'm also not real sure
that you'd still get good performance if there were an inserted LIMIT;
that would disable at least some optimizations.
        regards, tom lane