Tim Landscheidt <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > It seems that XMLPARSE() is called for every row without > PostgreSQL realizing that it is IMMUTABLE. Indeed, the system doesn't consider it immutable. None of the examples you show would benefit if it did, though. I believe there are GUC-parameter dependencies that prevent us from treating it as truly immutable, but if you want to ignore that consideration and force constant-folding anyway, you could wrap it in a SQL function that's marked as IMMUTABLE. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance