Re: Help with CREATE FUNCTION

From: Kip Warner <kip(at)thevertigo(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Sándor Daku <daku(dot)sandor(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Help with CREATE FUNCTION
Date: 2016-04-18 18:22:29
Message-ID: 1461003749.4911.63.camel@thevertigo.com
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On Mon, 2016-04-18 at 14:19 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> If they might change later, they're not really constants, hm? The
> usual advice for this sort of thing is to store them in a table.

They're variable only in the sense that they could vary after many
months, but constant enough that treating them as such allows us the
potential benefit of optimization.

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