Re: avoid select expens_expr(col) like unneccessary calculations

Stephan Szabo wrote:
> On 8 Jul 2003, Markus Bertheau wrote:
>
> > when you have
> > select expensive_expression(column), * from table offset 20 limit 40
> >
> > can you somehow save the cost for the first 20 calculations of
> > expensive_expression?
>
> Right now the only way I can think of that might work is to push the
> offset/limit into a subselect on table and then do the
> expensive_expression at the top level.

Well, you can do:

SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM pg_class) AS pg_class

so you could do:

SELECT func(relname), *
FROM (SELECT * FROM pg_class OFFSET 20 LIMIT 40) AS pg_class

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