Re: Using Variables in Queries

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Igal (at) Lucee(dot)org" <igal(at)lucee(dot)org>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Using Variables in Queries
Date: 2017-10-19 19:35:49
Message-ID: 11701.1508441749@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> FROM products,
>> (values ('red widget'::text)) consts(target)
>> WHERE similarity(target, item_name) > 0.25
>> ORDER BY target <<-> item_name
>>
>> PG 9.5 and up will flatten out cases like this to be exactly what you
>> wrote out longhand.

> ​Does it matter if the values expression is embedded in a CTE?

Yes, CTEs are optimization fences ...

regards, tom lane

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