Re: From Clause Conditional

Zahir Lalani <ZahirLalani(at)oliver(dot)agency> writes:
> LEFT JOIN lateral (
> SELECT
> CASE
> WHEN (0 > 0) THEN
> convert_from(crypto_secretbox_open, 'utf8')::JSON
> ELSE
> NULL
> END AS edata
> FROM
> crypto_secretbox_open(coalesce(null, '')::bytea, coalesce(null, '')::bytea,0)
> where (0>0)
> ) enc ON true

> The issue is that, even when the key is 0, the select is still run (its part of a lateral join) and what we need to achieve is to effectively have a conditional where we only run the select if the key > 0 otherwise we return null - I have a brain freeze on this! I am sure there is an easy solution, but right now I can't see it.

Is crypto_secretbox_open marked IMMUTABLE? I think recent PG versions
are capable of folding this all to a constant if so, whereas older
ones might not have. If you care about when/whether crypto_secretbox_open
runs, then it must have side-effects, so it shouldn't be IMMUTABLE.

regards, tom lane