Why not create a table with cols a, b, c and d. Where you insert a row for each combination and key and index abc then return d?
ons. 24. feb. 2021, 21:15 skrev Paul van der Linden < paul.doskabou...@gmail.com>: > Thanks for all the suggestions, > > When the server is not in use for mission-critical work, I'll definitely > going to do some testing based on your ideas. > Will let you know what comes out of that > > Cheers, > Paul > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 6:49 PM hubert depesz lubaczewski < > dep...@depesz.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 10:24:25AM -0700, Michael Lewis wrote: >> > [1] >> https://www.depesz.com/2010/03/18/profiling-stored-proceduresfunctions/ >> > >> > Thanks for this reference. I enjoy your blog, but haven't made the time >> to read all the archives somehow. Stuff doesn't stick very >> > well when it isn't yet "needed" info besides. >> > I have seen overhead from 'raise notice' in small functions that are >> sometimes called many thousands of times in a single query, but >> > hadn't done the test to verify if the same overhead still exists for >> raise debug or another level below both client_min_messages >> > and log_min_messages. Using your examples, I saw about .006 ms for each >> call to RAISE DEBUG with a client/log_min as notice/warning. >> >> Sure, this overhead is definitely possible, but kinda besides the point >> - there will be some slowdowns in other places, and it will be good to >> track them. >> That's why I suggested to do it on small sample of data. >> >> Best regards, >> >> depesz >> >>