| From: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> | 
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| To: | Bill Moran <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com> | 
| Cc: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org | 
| Subject: | Re: cacheable stored functions? | 
| Date: | 2004-02-20 15:47:33 | 
| Message-ID: | 20040220074336.G82937@megazone.bigpanda.com | 
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On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Bill Moran wrote:
> I'm converting a SQL application to PostgreSQL.  The majority of the logic
> in this application is in the stored functions in the database.
>
> Somewhere, I saw a reference to "WITH (iscachable)" for stored functions,
> looking again, I'm unable to find any reference to this directive.  I have
> a single function that is _obviously_ safe to cache using this, and it
> generates no errors or problems that I can see.
It's been basically superceded by IMMUTABLE, and I believe they're
described in the create function reference page.  Note that it doesn't
involve caching as much as the fact that it can be evaluated once and
treated as a constant.
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