Re: Why are JSON extraction functions STABLE and not IMMUTABLE?

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, depesz(at)depesz(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Why are JSON extraction functions STABLE and not IMMUTABLE?
Date: 2013-04-15 23:55:28
Message-ID: 20130415235528.GC5343@momjian.us
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On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 04:41:53PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
> On 04/15/2013 11:46 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
> >>
> >>Me either. It's an oversight, really. Unless there is any objection I'll
> >>change them toot sweet. What about the existing (as of 9.2) functions?
> >ISTM json_in, out, recv, send should also be immutable. array_to_json,
> >row_to_json et all can't be tho.
>
>
> OK, although these have been like this since 9.2. I'm not sure why
> json_out is immutable but json_in isn't.
>
> Does changing these require a catalog version bump?

Yes.

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