Re: ERROR: functions in index expression must be marked IMMUTABLE

From: "Sven R(dot) Kunze" <srkunze(at)mail(dot)de>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin(at)geoff(dot)dj>
Cc: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>, Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ERROR: functions in index expression must be marked IMMUTABLE
Date: 2017-03-01 13:36:15
Message-ID: d297e048-ac49-9bed-32e3-9dd4e65d0978@mail.de
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On 28.02.2017 17:50, David G. Johnston wrote:
> ​That would seem to be it.
>
> cache_locale_time() at the top of DCH_to_char which is in the call
> stack of the shared parsing code for both to_date and to_timestamp.
>
> ​https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=src/backend/utils/adt/formatting.c;h=e552c8d20b61a082049068d2f8d776e35fef1179;hb=HEAD#l2363
>
> Supposedly one could provide a version of to_date that accepts a
> locale in which to interpret names in the input data - or extend the
> format string with some kind of "{locale=en_US}" syntax to avoid
> changing the function signature.
>
> David J.

I don't know if this is the right way and list to ask for this:

But if this is acceptable, I would be willing to contribute a patch to
enable exactly this.

Regards,
Sven

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