Re: Interesting case of IMMUTABLE significantly hurting performance

From: Dominique Devienne <ddevienne(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Nico Williams <nico(at)cryptonector(dot)com>, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Olleg Samoylov <splarv(at)ya(dot)ru>, "pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Interesting case of IMMUTABLE significantly hurting performance
Date: 2025-04-11 07:59:18
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2025 at 5:52 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > I guess the real problems here are lack of feedback on a number of fronts:
> > *) the server knows the function is not immutable but lets you create it
> > anyway, even though it can have negative downstream consequences
>
> That's debatable I think. If you know what you're doing, you're going
> to be annoyed by warnings telling you that you don't.

True, but that's typically what pragmas in the code are for then,
to explicitly suppress warnings.

Or a new option in the CREATE FUNCTION command. Better safe than sorry,
and I prefer useful "on-by-default" warnings for the non-experts,
which can be disabled, than silence.

PS: And FWIW, I removed all attributes from the functions I'm
writting, based on your aerlier advice Tom.

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