I am having a performance problem with a query implemented within a server side function. If I use an SQL client(EMS Postgres) and manually generate the sql query I get about 100 times performance improvement over using the function. I've also tried using a prepared statement from my application and observed a similar performance improvement over the the function. The table I am quering against has several hundred thousand records. I have indexes defined and I've run vacuum several times. Is there something basic I am missing here with the use of a function. I am no database expert, but my assumption was that a function would give me better results than in-line sql. I've seen a mailing list entry in another list that implied that the query planner for a function behaves differently than in-line sql. Thanks Karl
