Tom Lane wrote:
>Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)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