Re: Profiling a function...

Robert Sanford wrote:
> How do I profile a user-defined function so that I know which parts of the
> function are the ones that are taking the biggest chunk of time?
>
> When I run EXPLAIN on the queries within the function none of them show up
> as onerous burdens to the performance. But when they are all operating
> together within the function and within the functional logic they become
> really expensive. Obviously I've made a mistake somewhere but it isn't
> obvious (otherwise it would be fixed already) and I'd prefer having a
> profile report telling me what is taking so long rather than guessing and
> possibly making things worse.
>
> So is there any way to get a line-by-line timing profile of a user-defined
> function?

Not really. What you can do is simulate the queries in functions by
using PREPARE. You're probably seeing a difference because when PG plans
the queries for functions/prepared queries it doesn't know the actual
values.

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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd