Re: BUG #19409: Function jsonb_strip_nulls() changed from immutable to stable.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: lucio.chiessi@trustly.com, pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org, Florents Tselai <florents.tselai@gmail.com>
Date: 2026-02-16T16:48:19Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> In penance for this I have worked up a mechanism to generate 
> default-setting statements from pg_proc.dat that I will post separately 
> about in -hackers. In the meantime, I guess we should fix it in release 
> 18 and master, with a release note that people might need to do a manual 
> update if affected, along the lines of
>     update pg_proc set provolatile = 'i' where oid in (3261,3262);

Yeah, the $64 question is what to do in REL_18_STABLE.  In master
we can commit this with a catversion bump, but we can't change
v18's catversion.  I think I agree that we should just change v18's
system_functions.sql anyway.  That will at least solve it for people
upgrading in future.

			regards, tom lane



Commits

  1. Simplify creation of built-in functions with default arguments.

  2. Fix the volatility setting of json{b}_strip_nulls