Improving the timing of a query

Hi,

I added this function to find the nearest hospital using the distance
covered on the route itself.

My reasoning was this :

- Find the 3 most near hospitals using distance() function

- Iterate the 3 hospitals and find the one which is the
shortest
distance taking into considerations one-ways et al. using
shootingstar_sp()
pgRouting Function.

Using Pastebin I have pasted my current function and also inline
commented
more on the function

The paste bin can be found here : http://yancho.pastebin.com/f2f986b8c

At the end of the paste you can find the EXPLAIN ANALYZE of the query.

As you can see I have highlighted in yellow some RAISE NOTICEs to time
the query and these are the results :

Below please find the result :

- filling up the hospital_location with that query took : 32646ms
- the IF section took 994 ms
- returning back to the FOR loop took : 104 ms
- Shooting Star execution took : 25079ms
- If statement took : 614ms
- Shooting star took : 37927 ms
- If took : 300 ms

Total query runtime: 114250 ms.
2 rows retrieved.

Execution plan :

NOTICE: Entering the FOR IN Thu Dec 06 21:02:46.267488 2007 CET
NOTICE: entering shooting star Thu Dec 06 21:02:46.300164 2007 CET
NOTICE: before IF Thu Dec 06 21:03:24.307906 2007 CET
NOTICE: value of nearest.dist is 585.966565014107
NOTICE: value of hospital.gid is 12712
NOTICE: value of nearest.gid is <NULL>
NOTICE: value of 2ND nearest.gid is POINT(640607.6248615
224673.124400562)
NOTICE: after if Thu Dec 06 21:03:24.308900 2007 CET
NOTICE: before end of loop Thu Dec 06 21:03:24.309029 2007 CET
NOTICE: entering shooting star Thu Dec 06 21:03:24.309133 2007 CET
NOTICE: before IF Thu Dec 06 21:04:02.024339 2007 CET
NOTICE: value of nearest.dist is 91.0322939509899
NOTICE: value of hospital.gid is 38600
NOTICE: value of nearest.gid is POINT(640607.6248615
224673.124400562)
NOTICE: value of 2ND nearest.gid is POINT(640952.4998615
224309.563400563)
NOTICE: after if Thu Dec 06 21:04:02.024953 2007 CET
NOTICE: before end of loop Thu Dec 06 21:04:02.025093 2007 CET
NOTICE: entering shooting star Thu Dec 06 21:04:02.025178 2007 CET
NOTICE: before IF Thu Dec 06 21:04:39.952201 2007 CET
NOTICE: after if Thu Dec 06 21:04:39.952510 2007 CET
NOTICE: before end of loop Thu Dec 06 21:04:39.952598 2007 CET
NOTICE: after end of loop before returning Thu Dec 06 21:04:39.952846
2007 CET

Total query runtime: 114250 ms.
2 rows retrieved.

Hope this information can help you give me a better idea on how I can
improve this query.

Thanks and regards

Matthew