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authordrh <drh@noemail.net>2009-11-11 00:24:31 +0000
committerdrh <drh@noemail.net>2009-11-11 00:24:31 +0000
commitae6bb9570b6d6ef7893a9571d0fa10b43d936f61 (patch)
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parent63b38789210cab605cbff76932f4be20323a5724 (diff)
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Generate VDBE code for the built-in COALESCE() and IFNULL() functions. This
allows unused arguments to never be evaluated, which is a performance win when the unused argument is a subquery. FossilOrigin-Name: 30055b257c3c65f8123cad5ac6c62c4c6ca2c900
Diffstat (limited to 'src/func.c')
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/func.c b/src/func.c
index 2766fa3b1..980d04edb 100644
--- a/src/func.c
+++ b/src/func.c
@@ -335,6 +335,14 @@ static void lowerFunc(sqlite3_context *context, int argc, sqlite3_value **argv){
}
}
+
+#if 0 /* This function is never used. */
+/*
+** The COALESCE() and IFNULL() functions used to be implemented as shown
+** here. But now they are implemented as VDBE code so that unused arguments
+** do not have to be computed. This legacy implementation is retained as
+** comment.
+*/
/*
** Implementation of the IFNULL(), NVL(), and COALESCE() functions.
** All three do the same thing. They return the first non-NULL
@@ -353,6 +361,8 @@ static void ifnullFunc(
}
}
}
+#endif /* NOT USED */
+#define ifnullFunc versionFunc /* Substitute function - never called */
/*
** Implementation of random(). Return a random integer.
@@ -1437,10 +1447,12 @@ void sqlite3RegisterGlobalFunctions(void){
FUNCTION(upper, 1, 0, 0, upperFunc ),
FUNCTION(lower, 1, 0, 0, lowerFunc ),
FUNCTION(coalesce, 1, 0, 0, 0 ),
- FUNCTION(coalesce, -1, 0, 0, ifnullFunc ),
FUNCTION(coalesce, 0, 0, 0, 0 ),
+/* FUNCTION(coalesce, -1, 0, 0, ifnullFunc ), */
+ {-1,SQLITE_UTF8,SQLITE_FUNC_COALESCE,0,0,ifnullFunc,0,0,"coalesce",0},
FUNCTION(hex, 1, 0, 0, hexFunc ),
- FUNCTION(ifnull, 2, 0, 1, ifnullFunc ),
+/* FUNCTION(ifnull, 2, 0, 0, ifnullFunc ), */
+ {2,SQLITE_UTF8,SQLITE_FUNC_COALESCE,0,0,ifnullFunc,0,0,"ifnull",0},
FUNCTION(random, 0, 0, 0, randomFunc ),
FUNCTION(randomblob, 1, 0, 0, randomBlob ),
FUNCTION(nullif, 2, 0, 1, nullifFunc ),