Re: Mislabeled timestamp functions (was Re: [SQL] [NOVICE] date_trunc'd

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Mislabeled timestamp functions (was Re: [SQL] [NOVICE] date_trunc'd
Date: 2004-10-02 20:04:51
Message-ID: 20041002200451.GA14830@wolff.to
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On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 10:43:01 +0200,
Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)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.

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