On Friday 5. November 2010 01.24.14 Carlo Stonebanks wrote: > We have procs that would benefit from returning IMMUTABLE results. The procs > are dependent on external tables that rarely change, but when they DO > change, it would be great if we could expire the cache that the procs read > from so that the procs are forced to re-evaluate the results. A function declared as IMMUTABLE can't, by definition, do database lookups. Then it has to be declared as STABLE. <http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/xfunc-volatility.html> «An IMMUTABLE function cannot modify the database and is guaranteed to return the same results given the same arguments forever.» regards, Leif B. Kristensen -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
