Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>> It would be interesting sometime to try to teach the planner about
>> inlining SQL-language functions to become joins. That is, given
> The Inlining of the function is presumably a side-issue. I have tons of
> queries that use subqueries in the select list for which the same behaviour
> would be appropriate.
Yeah, I was actually thinking about a two-step process: inline the
function to produce somethig equivalent to a handwritten scalar
sub-SELECT, and then try to convert sub-SELECTs into joins.
regards, tom lane