| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> | 
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| To: | Matthew Churcher <matthew(dot)churcher(at)realvnc(dot)com> | 
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | Re: Cost of initiating cursors | 
| Date: | 2013-04-11 17:40:55 | 
| Message-ID: | 6887.1365702055@sss.pgh.pa.us | 
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Matthew Churcher <matthew(dot)churcher(at)realvnc(dot)com> writes:
> I've tried cursor_tuple_fraction values as low as 0.0000000001 which by my reckoning should be low enough and also 0 but the planner is still selecting seqscan-and-sort. 
Hm.  Keep in mind that plpgsql caches query plans, so if you're
examining this by checking the runtime of the function you showed,
you'd need to start a fresh session, set cursor_tuple_fraction, then
try the function to be sure you were seeing the effects of the
parameter change.
regards, tom lane
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