Re: to_char not IMMUTABLE?

From: Mario Weilguni <mweilguni(at)sime(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Subject: Re: to_char not IMMUTABLE?
Date: 2007-01-12 14:07:32
Message-ID: 200701121507.32274.mweilguni@sime.com
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Am Freitag, 12. Januar 2007 14:48 schrieb Martijn van Oosterhout:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 11:55:07AM +0100, Mario Weilguni wrote:
> > to_char(timestamp, 'yyyy') should be constant and marked immutable,
> > or am I wrong here? Or is it not marked immutable because of possible
> > changes on date_format?
>
> AIUI, to_char is not immutable because it can be effected by external
> variables, like LC_TIME.
>
> As it is though, I'm not sure why you're using to_char here, surely
> extract or date_truc would be more appropriate?

Thanks for the info. Changing this to use extract is no real problem, I was
just curious if this is intendend behaviour.

Best regards,
Mario Weilguni

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