Damon Snyder wrote: > I have heard it said that if a stored procedure is declared as > VOLATILE, then no good optimizations can be done on queries within > the stored procedure or queries that use the stored procedure (say > as the column in a view). I have seen this in practice, recommended > on the irc channel, and in the archives ( > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-performance/2008-01/msg00283.php > ). Can > someone help me understand or point me to some documentation > explaining why this is so? Here's the documentation: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/sql-createfunction.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/interactive/xfunc-volatility.html -Kevin -- Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance