Re: BUG #19644: byteaout, float8out and float4out are marked IMMUTABLE but depend on GUCs

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: jj-zhang25(at)mails(dot)tsinghua(dot)edu(dot)cn, pgsql-bugs(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BUG #19644: byteaout, float8out and float4out are marked IMMUTABLE but depend on GUCs
Date: 2026-09-02 03:15:59
Message-ID: 1306744.1788318959@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Fujii Masao <masao(dot)fujii(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2026 at 10:12 PM PG Bug reporting form
> <noreply(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
>> Mark byteaout, float8out and float4out (and the corresponding casts to text)
>> STABLE rather than IMMUTABLE, matching date_out, interval_out and cash_out.

> +1 to making such changes on master, even though they would cause
> several compatibility issues for existing users...

I agree with changing this on master, but I see no reason to do
anything whatever in the back branches. There are few situations
where the mutability marking of a datatype output function matters,
and even if it does, you don't see an actual problem unless you
change one of these GUCs mid-query. If it were a big deal,
we would have noticed this ages ago.

regards, tom lane

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