Re: Mislabeled timestamp functions (was Re: [SQL] [NOVICE] date_trunc'd
Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-10-02T20:04:51Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-novice, pgsql-sql
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:43:01 +0200, Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com> wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > >I wrote: > >Do you see any other mislabelings? > > I don't but I think that the concept of immutable shall be expanded. > I mean I can use safely a date_trunc immutable in a query ( I think this > is a sort of "immutable per statement" ) but not in a index definition > ( the index mantainance is affected by the current timezonesettings ). > So may be another modifier shall be introduced that reflect the "immutable > per statement" There has been such a distinction for a major release or two. "Stable" is how you mark a function that will return the same value within a single transaction.