LATERAL and VOLATILE functions

From: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: LATERAL and VOLATILE functions
Date: 2012-12-15 21:47:48
Message-ID: CAFj8pRDoSzrh6zwDcc1_cLk9zg_QKsCC9yRDhMG=P0SJpZwoLQ@mail.gmail.com
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Hello

I tested some usage of LATERAL clause, and I found so LATERAL doesn't
respects difference between VOLATILE and IMMUTABLE functions.

Is this behave expected?

-- unexpected
postgres=# select * from generate_series(1,3) g(v), LATERAL (SELECT random()) x;
;
v │ random
───┼──────────────────
1 │ 0.63025646051392
2 │ 0.63025646051392
3 │ 0.63025646051392
(3 rows)

-- expected
postgres=# select * from generate_series(1,3) g(v), LATERAL (SELECT
random() - v + v) x;
v │ ?column?
───┼───────────────────
1 │ 0.381548477802426
2 │ 0.762988060247153
3 │ 0.181648664642125
(3 rows)

Regards

Pavel Stehule

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