Re: IMMUTABLE and PARALLEL SAFE function markings

From: Vik Fearing <vik(dot)fearing(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Gajus Kuizinas <gajus(at)gajus(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: IMMUTABLE and PARALLEL SAFE function markings
Date: 2018-11-27 00:11:50
Message-ID: c3fe8572-197b-1b88-a7ba-8501625d3ac2@2ndquadrant.com
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On 27/11/2018 01:10, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> * Vik Fearing (vik(dot)fearing(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
>> On 27/11/2018 01:05, Stephen Frost wrote:
>>> That said, I do *not* think we should make any assumptions here- users
>>> incorrectly mark things all the time but we shouldn't encourage that and
>>> we shouldn't assume that functions marked as immutable are parallel
>>> safe.
>>
>> Does that mean we also shouldn't assume that functions marked as
>> immutable are index safe?
>
> We've got an index safe flag?

Yes. It's called provolatile='i'.

> That's news to me.
>
> Thanks!

You're welcome.
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