Re: 14.1 immutable function, bad performance if check number = 'NaN'

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Federico Travaglini <federico(dot)travaglini(at)aubay(dot)it>, "pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 14.1 immutable function, bad performance if check number = 'NaN'
Date: 2022-04-25 19:06:25
Message-ID: CAKFQuwYxhRcyYDWiaoEPmQR06FDTbSr=P_mdMKaviLL-O19=4Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Monday, April 25, 2022, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Federico Travaglini <federico(dot)travaglini(at)aubay(dot)it> writes:
> > This funcion in used as a column in a select on about 400k records
> > If I leave the highlighted row it takes 27 seconds, otherwise 14 seconds!
> > Such behaviour looks not to be reasonable.
>
> It's not at all clear which line you think is the "highlighted" one.
>
>
Its the comparison of the double input value to the untyped literal ‘NaN’
(the first case test).

David J.

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