Re: why pg_size_pretty is volatile?

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: why pg_size_pretty is volatile?
Date: 2016-01-26 06:00:43
Message-ID: CAFj8pRCWN+Nbja9YYSc-8SzOPze5M1tsTJEH-=GWi=So7+gz6A@mail.gmail.com
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2016-01-26 2:00 GMT+01:00 Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>:

> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 5:35 AM, Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > Vitaly Burovoy pointed on bug in my patch - a pg_size_bytes was VOLATILE
> > function. It is copy/paste bug - I used pg_size_pretty definition, so the
> > question is: why pg_size_pretty is volatile? It should be immutable too.
>
> +1. This function relies only on the input of its argument to generate a
> result.
>

attached patch

all tests passed

Regards

Pavel

> --
> Michael
>

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pg_size_pretty-immutable.patch text/x-patch 2.4 KB

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