On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've complained many times that > select (f()).*; > > will execute f() once for each returned field of f() since the server > essentially expands that into: > > select f().a, f().b; > oh, this is why we expand rows inside a WITH statement. it should probably be fixed, but you should find something like WITH fn AS SELECT f(), SELECT (fn).a, (fn).b will make your life better -- Peter van Hardenberg San Francisco, California "Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt." -- Kurt Vonnegut -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance