On 2018-08-21 15:47:07 +0300, Surafel Temesgen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 5:34 PM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: > > > > > Won't that have rather massive issues with multiple evaluations of > > clauses in the query? Besides being really expensive? > > > The plan re-scane after first execution I can’t see issue for multiple > execution of a clause in this case
Imagine volatile functions being used. That can be problematic because of repeated side-effects, but also will lead to plainly wrong results. Consider what happens with your approach where somebody does something like WHERE value < random(). Greetings, Andres Freund