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Scalar subqueries for stored functions
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
This setting is useful mostly for the Oracle database, which implements a feature called scalar subquery caching, which is a good tool to avoid the expensive PL/SQL-to-SQL context switch when predicates make use of stored function calls.
With this setting in place, all stored function calls embedded in SQL statements will be wrapped in a scalar subquery:
SELECT (SELECT my_package.format(LANGUAGE_ID) FROM dual) FROM BOOK
DSL.using(configuration) .select(MyPackage.format(BOOK.LANGUAGE_ID)) .from(BOOK)
If our table contains thousands of books, but only a dozen of LANGUAGE_ID values, then with scalar subquery caching, we can avoid most of the function calls and cache the result per LANGUAGE_ID.
Example configuration
Settings settings = new Settings()
.withRenderScalarSubqueriesForStoredFunctions(true);
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